Pepsi Indian Premier League - Season 6

[Dilbert]

Dalmiya was dethroned by Pawar and now Dalmiya has extended his support to Srini, there by keeping Pawar on check. As long as Dalmiya is with Srini, it is tough to remove Srini.

http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/video...-lateststories

long live indian cricket fans !! city corporation cleaning operation start !! bring your broomsticks

[venkkiram]

http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/video...-lateststories

long live indian cricket fans !! city corporation cleaning operation start !! bring your broomsticks

I had mentioned this a week back. Yes. Ipl badly needs a short time ban.

[venkkiram]

Why Dhoni is not opening his mouth about spot fixing and betting? Being a leader under srini maamaa for 6 years, Dhoni should be targeted as a prime one by media.

[Dilbert]

Neengea vera Venki !! Indian fans just can't see their gods on camera answering questions about betting or fixing. It will disturb their tranquility. Instead if they see a youtube video after 20 years of a bookie or a official claiming gods knew about the matches being fixed and single handedly defended the fort with their shiny armour will give them the much needed solace.

India is no where close to International standards when it comes to sports investigation. And it will never will be especially in cricket until BCCI is not under Indian govt. A bunch of corrupt old hogs running the house with lame and out dated rules and regulation is a telling sign of things to come. If Indian cricket fans truly want to see some change, then they should boycott the cricket all together for a brief period. Till these guys understand that they can't play with fans emotions by keeping few glossy poster boys. When the whole system is decaying from inside.

Just give you guys an recent example :
They way US sports authorities handled Penn state , this is one of the oldest (estd 1888) and most successful college football program in the country. Because of 1 assistant coach's involvement in a child abuse scandal.the NCAA fined Penn State $60 million, vacated Paterno's (was the most successful football coach of all time) 111 wins between 1998–2011 and banned the team from bowl games for four years.Some estimate College / city's economy would take a hit of some 350 million because of this decision. But they went a ahead.

Do you guys think BCCI will let go that kind of Money for the sake of cricket ?

[Dilbert]

oh my Baba God Sachin-dananda finally spoke

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cricketne...395195-78.html

[Dilbert]

http://www.timesnow.tv/videoshow/4428694.cms

[Dilbert]

IPL controversy: Top BCCI office-bearers Ajay Shirke and Sanjay Jagdale resign

Mr Shirke on Wednesday had called for BCCI president N Srinivasan's resignation on moral grounds. Yesterday, he had said, "If the board continues to ignore what I consider is primary responsibility, I will find it difficult for myself to be associated with it."
BCCI Joint Secretary Anurag Thakur said today that he had sought a Special General Meeting of the Board, where he and other members would "speak their minds."The BCCI has called an emergency meeting on Saturday, June 8. Twenty four of the 30 full members of the board are expected to be at the meeting. These include the representatives of state boards like Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia who want N Srinivasan to quit because his son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan, has been arrested on charges of betting.
The meeting is likely to be stormy and Mr Srinivasan, who has refused to quit, is likely to face many questions. Among them some on today's allegation by Mumbai Police sources that they have phone records of a conversation between Mr Meiyappan and actor Vindu Dara Singh, where the former allegedly said he had been warned by the ICC or International Cricket Council, to be careful of the company he was keeping. Vindu is under arrest too.
Police sources said Mr Meiyappan was allegedly warned just when the IPL began. Questions are now being raised on whether Mr Srinivasan knew about the alleged warning, since he is an ICC director. On Friday evening too, Mr Srinivasan flatly denied any knowledge of the alleged ICC warning to Mr Meiyappan. And said once more that, "I am not resigning."BCCI sources said that a working committee meeting cannot vote out the board president, who is an elected functionary. But a working committee can, at its meeting, ask for a special Annual General Meeting or AGM to be called, where he can be voted out. Mr Srinivasan's term as president ends in September, when the next AGM is scheduled.
Siddharth Trivedi, a Rajasthan Royals bowler, on Friday deposed as a prosecution witness in the IPL spot-fixing case being probed by the Delhi Police, sources said. He recorded his statements in a Delhi court today. Trivedi reportedly told the police that the bookies were in touch with his arrested colleague Ajit Chandila and some others who used to party together and that some foreign cricketers used to attend these parties. (Read)
Sachin Tendulkar today spoke for the first time on the IPL spot-fixing scandal and said that it "hurts when the game of cricket is in the news for the wrong reasons. The developments in the last two weeks have been shocking and disappointing." (IPL spot-fixing: Full coverage)The Tamil Nadu Police today raided two hotels of Vikram Aggarwal, who was summoned for questioning in the IPL betting case. Mr Aggarwal today reached the Mumbai Police's Crime Branch office. He had been asked to surrender before the Tamil Nadu Police on Thursday but he missed the deadline. His plea for anticipatory bail was rejected by the Madras High Court. Police allege Mr Aggarwal was active in betting circles and that he introduced Vindu to Mr Meiyappan.Cricketer Ankeet Chavan was granted conditional bail till June 6 for his wedding by a Delhi Court on Thursday. Chavan had sought bail on the ground that his marriage is fixed for June 2.

[paranitharan]

Shivji what are YOU still doing in this thread ? ya ya Kolaveri , Kaveri !!. I was immensely pleased with the outcome. I am not sure I would have been that happy even if RCB would have won IPL final.


Can we please close this thread now !!

The ultimate glory hunter.

[Dilbert]

One more stinky wicket gone !! One more to go ...

Rajeev Shukla quits as IPL chief as Srinivasan's exit from BCCI looms

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cricketne...395550-78.html

New Delhi: Rajeev Shukla on Saturday resigned from his post of IPL Chairman, days after the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal broke out and just ahead of the critical BCCI Working Committee meeting that may see the ouster of the cricketing body's chief N Srinivasan.
Shukla, who still remains the BCCI vice president, said he made the decision to quit in the "view of recent controversies". "It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time. I think it is time to step down," Shukla said.
He also took into account the resignations of BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale and treasurer Ajay Shirke before taking the decision to step down. "Sanjay Jagdale and Ajay Shirke resigned in the best interest of Indian cricket. I thought this is the right time," he said.

The resignation of Shukla comes as a severe setback to the incumbent president Srinivasan who has already been isolated by his team of officials, two of whom -- Secretary Jagdale and Treasurer Shirke -- have already quit.
But the beleaguered 68-year-old chief of the cricketing body is not ready to go down without a fight and he has set pre-conditions for his resignation. Srinivasan wants to fill in the posts of BCCI secretary and treasurer, vacated by Sanjay Jagdale and Ajay Shirke on Saturday night, with the people he chooses. He also wants to be a representative in the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Sources have said there are two factions within the BCCI. While one faction wants a compromise exit for Srinivasan and is in favour of him stepping aside till the probe into the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandals and against his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan is over, the other faction wants him to quit on Sunday after the meeting.
BCCI Working Committee Joint Secretary Anurag Thakur said that a number of issues would be discussed during the meeting. "I discussed with the President, I have given notice for meeting and it will be held tomorrow in Chennai. We are going to discuss a lot of issues. I think it is to early to discuss it in the media (on interim president) but as I said we will discuss number of the issues - to clean the image whatever steps are required will be taken by BCCI. There will be transparency and fair probe. There will be no conflict of interest," said Thakur.
Srinivasan will be told clearly by the members that his position was "untenable" under the circumstances and it would be in the interest of Indian cricket that he stepped down on moral grounds, PTI reported. If he continued to remain adamant, most of the Board officials will then to quit and create a constitutional crisis within the Board, leaving him with no option but to step down.
The working committee has 24 members and it has been largely summoned to gauge the mood which was heavily against Srinivasan. Now with both Secretary Jagdale and Treasurer Shirke gone, it will be a 22-member forum as both Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) and Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) are not part of current working committee.
Meanwhile, the name of former BCCI chief Shashank Manohar, a non-controversial figure whom Srinivasan had succeeded two years ago, is doing the rounds as the interim president but it remains to be seen if that actually happens since he is not part of any affiliated body right now. Shivlal Yadav, the Vice-President from South, is also seen as a possible candidate.

[Dilbert]

No chance of a clean chit to Gurunath Meiyappan - mumbai police

http://www.timesnow.tv/No-chance-of-...ow/4428800.cms


Fixing + may be betting but No Fixing = Yes YES Fixing !!

Just wondering from whom did Guruji got his regular update about team Chatterjee. Police should now question CSK Tea boys and Ball boys I guess.

Jodi Tor Dak Shune Keu Na Ase Tobe Ekla Cholo Re !!