Monday, November 29, 1999

Still more trouble for Modi

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Mumbai, May 9 -- On a day Lalit Modi dismissed charges levelled by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Giles Clarke as preposterous, Hindustan Times accessed a copy of the email Clarke sent to his Indian cricket board counterpart Shashank Manohar detailing the suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner's plans to stage a coup in the home of cricket. HT also has a copy of the show-cause notice sent to him, objecting to Modi's March 31 meeting with representatives of three English counties. The mail says Modi, in association with the International Management Group (IMG) put forward a proposal to the counties of starting a parallel IPL in the United Kingdom, with or without the ECB's sanction. "I attach an email detailing minutes of a meeting called by Mr Modi, held with IMG and three English Test grounds," Clarke told Manohar in his email sent on May 6. "It sets out a plan to destroy world cricket's structure and especially that in England, and create a new rebel league." According to the mail, those who attended the meeting included Modi, IMG executives Andrew Wildblood and Griffiths, apart from Yorkshire County Cricket Club Chief Executive Stewart Regan, Warwickshire's Colin Povey and Lancashire's David Hodgekiss. In the notice, the BCCI has charged Modi with insinuating players. "You have allegedly discussed this as a commercial proposition. and also set out that IPL would guarantee each county a minimum of $3-5 million per annum plus a staging fee of $1.5 million if the counties supported this idea," the notice charged. "You have allegedly planted a seed of thought of players' revolt if the governing bodies of respective cricket boards do not allow them to participate in this extended version of IPL," the notice said. On Saturday, the drama surrounding the second show-cause notice issued to Modi, seemed to heighten. While Modi dismissed the allegation as "fiction", the International Management Group (IMG), Modi's alleged partners in crime, issued a statement saying their representatives had made it clear in the meeting that the "sovereignty and processes of the ECB must at all times be respected ." Despite the denial, IMG would have some tough questions to field when they meet the BCCI top brass on May 17. And don't be surprised if they find that their association with the BCCI is terminated soon after the meeting. On Saturday, when Modi was reportedly meeting lawyer Harish Salve in Delhi to finalise his reply to a notice suspending him from all posts in the cricket board, Mehmood Abdi, Modi's counsel in Mumbai, submitted a set of missing documents to BCCI office bearers.

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