Judges propose Sunil Gavaskar takes over India board

Supreme Court says Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals should be barred from the next edition of the IPL.


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File photo of Sunil Gavaskar. PHOTO: AFP

NEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court recommended Thursday that batting legend Sunil Gavaskar takes over as interim president of the country's cricket board in place of the embattled incumbent N Srinivasan.

A panel of judges also said the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals – the two teams at the centre of an ongoing probe into illegal betting and match-fixing – should be barred from the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) beginning next month.

"In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president," Justice AK Patnaik said at a hearing in New Delhi.

"We are not removing anyone now, but Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals will not be allowed to participate in the IPL which commences on April 16," added Patnaik, who is head of the two-judge panel.

The proposals came two days after the same court urged Srinivasan to stand down as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to enable a "fair" investigation into allegations surrounding last year's IPL.

The bench is looking at a damning report it commissioned into wrongdoing in last year's edition of the annual Twenty20 tournament.

Released in February, the report concluded that Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan could be guilty of illegal betting on IPL games.

Srinivasan is regarded as the most powerful man in world cricket and is due to take over in July as head of the International Cricket Council.

COMMENTS (8)

Rakib | 10 years ago | Reply

@Tani: (in democratic country you can express your views within constitutional parameters. Etc) He sits on The Bench. Not in his Club. He has to choose to deny himself the luxury of talking nine to a dozen even if constitution permits him.A judge has to learn rectitude & reticence & be very choosy with words. I was not talking of Modi's guilt (the evidence would have been destroyed by his own Police long before case & he can never be proved guilty) or innocence. I mentioned only the Judge's premature exclamation in comparing him with Nero. That was a wrong thing to say. What proof did he have against Modi to make such loose talk? For an Activist Judge to keep mum when Salve fires a salvo against Dhoni does look surprising. If judges have "Always recommended" (names for jobs & indulged in nepotism/favours) its time they stopped that since it's "always" a bad practice. What is Gavaskar's "side"? Judge is supposed to take the side of Law, Justice, Fair-play. Not play favourites. May be Indians love & appreciate great Judges like V. Ramaswami,Soumitra Sen & AK Ganguli. All power to them. It still doesn't alter the fact the judge had no business to force their man on BCCI. But then he did succeed in getting his way, didn't he?

Tani | 10 years ago | Reply

@rakib in democratic country you can express your views within constitutional parameters. About modi no court of the world can pronounce him guilty when there is no proof. He is was not on road rioting and the case is about rioting. But it was his duty as chief minister to proper manage the issue which he failed miserably. It's indian media and secular parties thats targeting him to blot him from his economic development success in Gujarat and make him loose election. But u cannot pronounce him guilty of killing when he didn't and wasn't even of streets. Harsh salve can say what if he wishes if feels enough shady matter there. The judges don't have to respond till case proceeds in free and fair manner and find dhoni guilty. The judges in india has always recommended the government in cases, others etc we don't find it wrong and it's not legal binding. Supreme Court never took sides or is biased, all it said was till the chief is head there's conflict of interest all parties will be scared to tell truth. Judges didn't even take gavaskar's side and told him to end all his commitments with broadcast if has to take role of bcci head, if bcci approves. And any way as Indians we appreciate and trust our judiciary and not corrupt politicians who knows they might suggest someone's with likes of suresh kalmadi..

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