Ipl Scandals

- TheIndian Premier League(IPL) is a professional confederacy forTwenty20cricketchampionship inIndia. It was initiated by theBoard of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI), headquartered inMumbai,Maharashtra34and is supervised byBCCIVice PresidentRajeev Shukla,5who serves as the leagues Chairman andCommissioner. It is soon contested by nine teams, consisting of players from around the cricketing world. -However, the league has been engulfed byseries of corruption scandals. - Controversies involving the Indian Premier League From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia TheBoard of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) has found itself in the middle of many conflicts with various cricket boards around the world as a result of theIndian Premier League(IPL). The primary(prenominal) point of contention was that signed players should always be available to their country for international tours, even if it overlaps with the IPL season.To address this, the BCCI officially requested that theInternation al Cricket Council(ICC) to be a time period in the International Future Tours Program, solely for the IPL season. This request was not granted at a subsequent meeting held by the ICC. 1 Contentshide * 1Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board * 2Media restrictions * 3Conflict with Cricket Club of India * 4Suspension of Lalit Modi * 5Chirayu Amin named IPL interim chairman * 6Termination of the Kochi franchise * 72012 billet fixing case * 8References - editConflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with theCounty Championshipseason as well up asNew Zealandstour ofEngland, theECBand county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players. The ECB made it abundantly clear that they would not sign No Objection Certificates for playersa requisite for playing in the IPL. Chairmen of the county clubs also made it clear that players contracted to them were required to ulfill their commitment to their county. As a r esult of this,Dimitri Mascarenhaswas the only English player to drop signed with the IPL for the 2008 season. 2 A result of the ECBs concerns about players joining the IPL, was a proposed radical response of creating their own Twenty20 tournament that would be similar in structure to the IPL. The league titled theTwenty20 English Premier League would feature 21 teams in three groups of seven and would occur towards the end of the summer season. 3The ECB enlisted the aid ofTexasbillionaireAllen Stanfordto launch the proposed league. 4Stanford was the brains rear end the successfulStanford 20/20, a tournament that has run twice in theWest Indies. On 17 February 2009, when intelligence service of the fraud investigation against Stanford became public, the ECB andWICBwithdrew from talks with Stanford on sponsorship. 56On February 20 the ECB announced it has severed its ties with Stanford and cancelled all contracts with him. 7 - editMedia restrictionsInitially the IPL enforced stric t guidelines to media covering matches, consistent with their desire to use the same model sports leagues in North America use in regards to media coverage. Notable guidelines imposed included the restriction to use images taken during the event unless purchased fromcricket. com, owned by Live contemporary Media Inc (who won the rights to such images) and the prohibition of live coverage from the cricket grounds. Media agencies also had to agree to upload all images taken at IPL matches to the official website. This was deemed unacceptable by issue media around the world.Upon the threat of boycott, the IPL eased up on several of the restrictions. 8On 15 April 2008 a revised set of guidelines offering major concessions to the print media and agencies was issued by the IPL and accepted by theIndian Newspaper Society. 9 - editConflict with Cricket Club of India As per IPL rules, the winner of the previous competition decides the venue for the finals. 10In 2009, the reigning Champion s,Deccan Chargerschose theBrabourne sphereinMumbai. 10However, a dispute regarding use of the avilion meant that no IPL matches could be held there. The members of theCricket Club of Indiathat owns the stadium have the sole right to the pavilion on match days, whereas the IPL required the pavilion for its sponsors. 11The members were offered free seats in the stands, however the club rejected the offer, stating that members could not be moved out of the pavilion. 101213 - editSuspension of Lalit Modi On 25 April 2010, the BCCI hang upLalit Modi, the IPL chairman, for alleged acts of individual misdemeanours.The suspension notice was served on him by Rajeev Shukla, BCCI vice- chairperson, and N Srinivasan, the board secretary, sending an e-mail to the same effect. It followed a day of negotiations with interlocutors attempting to persuade Modi to vacate but pre-empted a potentially flashpoint at a scheduled IPL governing council meeting, which Modi had said he would attend. Modi w as officially barred from participating in the personal matters of the Board, the IPL and any other charge of the BCCI. 14 - editChirayu Amin named IPL interim chairman Chirayu Amin, an industrialist and head of theBaroda Cricket Association, was named interim chairman of the IPL by the BCCI, following Lalit Modis suspension. 15According to BCCI, many important documents were absent from the IPL and BCCI offices. Many of the records are missing. The IT is asking for documents. We dont have them. We have asked BCCI CAO Prof Ratnakar Shetty to look into the missing records and papers, said BCCI President Shashank Manohar. 16 - editTermination of the Kochi franchise On September 19, 2011, the newly select BCCI president N Srinivasan, after the annual general meeting in Mumbai, announced that the Kochi Tuskers Kerala IPL franchise was terminated by the BCCI for br separatelying its terms of agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, each franchise has to submit a bank contract eve ry year that covers the fee payable to the BCCI. The 2010-founded team was bought for Rs 1,550 crore and the consortium has to pay a bank guarantee of156 crore every year till 2020. 17The consortium that owns Kochi is reported to have defaulted on an annual payment of156 crores as a bank guarantee. In April 2010, the BCCIs working committee had rejected demands from Kochi and Pune Warriors for a reduction in their franchisee fees. The two new franchises, which made their debuts in 2011, had sought a 25% waiver on the grounds that the BCCI had tell in the bidding document that each team would play 18 league matches in a season. The schedule was later reduced to 14 matches per team. - edit2012 spot fixing case Main article2012 Indian Premier League spot fixing case On 14 May 2012, an Indian news epithelial ductIndia TVaired asting operationwhich accused 5 players involved inspot fixing. Reacting to the news, Indian Premier League presidentRajiv Shuklaimmediately suspended the 5 uncap ped players. The five players were,TP Sudhindra(Deccan Chargers),Mohnish Mishra(Pune Warriors), Amit Yadav,Shalabh Srivastava(Kings XI Punjab) andAbhinav Bali, Delhi cricketer . 18However, the report went on to claim that none of the famous cricketers were found guilty.On the reliability of the report,Rajat Sharma, theeditor-in-chiefof news channelIndia TVquoted that the channel had no doubts about the authenticity of the sting operation and prepared to go to court. 19 Mohnish Mishra who was part ofPune Warriors Indiateam for the season, admitted to have said that franchises pay corrosive money, in a sting operation. Mishra was caught on tape saying that franchisees paid them black money and that he had received1. 5crore(US$273,000)from the later, among which1. 2crore(US$218,400)was black money. 20He was also suspended from his team. 21