ECB alleges parallel IPL was in the works in UK

[Gunner_Mania]

The BCCI has issued a show-cause notice to Lalit Modi, the suspended IPL commissioner, after receiving an email from the ECB alleging activities by Modi that are "detrimental to Indian cricket, English cricket and world cricket at large." It is believed that the charge pertains to efforts to set up a parallel IPL in the UK, with the help of the counties, that would undermine the ECB. The BCCI said the mail was sent to its president, Shashank Manohar, by Giles Clarke, his counterpart in the ECB. When contacted, the ECB said it had no comment to offer. Modi already faces a show-cause notice issued by the BCCI on April 26 specifying five charges involving the initial franchise bids for Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, the rigging of franchise bids in 2010, the sale of broadcasting and internet rights and his "behavioral pattern". He is to respond to that notice by May 11. According to PTI, which said it had a copy of the document, the five-page notice issued on Thursday referred to a meeting Modi held on March 31 in Delhi with representatives of English counties including Yorkshire, Lancashire and Warwickshire, in which he is alleged to have discussed a parallel IPL in England and Wales in which eight existing franchises would bid for nine counties in UK. "We attended that meeting in an educational capacity, as we wished to learn more about how the IPL has gone from nowhere to being one of the biggest sporting businesses in the world inside two years," Yorkshire's chief executive, Stewart Regan, told Cricinfo. "The success of the IPL proves that cricket is a product that people want to buy and that sponsors want to get involved with, and those were the key learning areas that we were interested in. It would not be appropriate to comment any further." The BCCI's chargesheet, as quoted by PTI, was detailed. "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," it said. "You have allegedly offered a structured deal, by which the returns would be shared 80:20 between the franchises and the counties, a player model based on the IPL model and offered inducement to gather the rest of the county members to support your ideas and goad them to overpower their own governing bodies. "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." If Clarke's allegations were true, it said, Modi's activities would amount to a blow to "the very foundation of the way cricket is administered and played across the world". "It challenges not just the authority of BCCI but also (that of) ECB and suggested that IPL would henceforth literally shift to the hands of the franchises and the respective national governing bodies would be forced to watch helplessly while the game and the power of administration are hijacked," the notice said. "Therefore after due consultation with President BCCI, this show-cause notice is being issued to you, calling upon you to give your explanation to the above grave charges within 15 days of receipt of this show-cause notice, failing which it will be deemed that you have no explanation to offer."

http://www.cricinfo.com/ipl2010/content/current/story/458712.html :headshake: What the heck was he playing at??

[Serani]

Modi on a rampage.

[Sachinism]

LOL and all Modi devotees keep going on about all great things Modi is doing for cricket :haha: The scumbag couldn't give a hoot, all he wants is the monies

[Gunner_Mania]

According to PTI, which said it had a copy of the document, the five-page notice issued on Thursday referred to a meeting Modi held on March 31 in Delhi with representatives of English counties including Yorkshire, Lancashire and Warwickshire, in which he is alleged to have discussed a parallel IPL in England and Wales in which eight existing franchises would bid for nine counties in UK.

Not only does the franchisees he allegedly has invested money in makes more money, the other franchisees do to. No wonder some of the franchises were out supporting him.

[Karan114]

****ing hell!

[yoda]

waiting for achilles and asterix to explain to us how brilliant this idea was and why modi needs to be applauded for trying to make the IPL even more popular :hehe:

[thevortex]

Modi just put paid to all his hopes of any sort of sympathy from any quarter.

[hitman1980]

ok .. if this news if correct .. then I have left no sympathy for Modi .. He deserved the kick and even worse than tht ..

[Nova]

I didn't like him from the start. He has a good marketing brain but lacks principles. I made a pic on him long time ago...which sums up my feelings:

[nballa]

what's its called? "bizzaro ipl"?

[Zap_Brannigan]

That is ruthless and really bad.

[straight.drive]

Now modi's fame is officially trans-continental. Trying to "invest" in counties through ipl franchises :omg:.

[Chandan]

LOL and all Modi devotees keep going on about all great things Modi is doing for cricket :haha: The scumbag couldn't give a hoot, all he wants is the monies

Not only does the franchisees he allegedly has invested money in makes more money' date=' the other franchisees do to. No wonder some of the franchises were out supporting him.[/quote']

****ing hell!

waiting for achilles and asterix to explain to us how brilliant this idea was and why modi needs to be applauded for trying to make the IPL even more popular :hehe:

Modi just put paid to all his hopes of any sort of sympathy from any quarter.

Why surprised??

[Nova]

Counties rubbish allegations of parallel-IPL agenda

The counties who met Lalit Modi in India in March have rubbished the allegations that they were involved in secret talks to set up a parallel IPL in which the existing franchises could bid for nine domestic teams in the UK. In a formal complaint to the BCCI, Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, alleged that Modi was trying to induce the counties into activities that could prove "detrimental to Indian cricket, English cricket and world cricket at large." Clarke's accusations forced the BCCI to slap a second show-cause notice on Modi in two weeks, after the board suspended him from all BCCI positions including that as the chairman of the IPL and pressed five specific charges ranging from financial impropriety to "behavioral pattern." "This is totally overblown," Colin Graves, the Yorkshire chairman, told the Guardian on the accusation that Modi's plans had the potential to "hijack" the game. "It was a fact-finding mission. Lalit Modi did not put a proposition on the table. There were no secret proposals, no secret agenda, nothing underhand," Graves said. Though Graves was not in Delhi at the meeting, Yorkshire's chief executive Stewart Regan met Modi, along with representatives from two other counties: Colin Povey, the Warwickshire chief executive and the Lancashire committee member David Hodgkiss. "We attended that meeting in an educational capacity, as we wished to learn more about how the IPL has gone from nowhere to being one of the biggest sporting businesses in the world inside two years," Yorkshire's chief executive, Stewart Regan, told Cricinfo immediately after the BCCI made public the accusations against Modi. "The success of the IPL proves that cricket is a product that people want to buy and that sponsors want to get involved with, and those were the key learning areas that we were interested in. It would not be appropriate to comment any further." Graves concurred with Regan on the success of the IPL model, pointing out the ECB could definitely learn a lot from that. He also stressed that the ECB were kept in the loop about the discussions and he had personally sent Clarke the notes of the meeting. "IPL has been extraordinarily successful and we can learn a lot from it. There was a proper business discussion about how things might develop in the future, the sort of discussions that can benefit the whole of English cricket. Stewart Regan took notes of the meeting and forwarded them to all the Test grounds. I then passed those notes to Giles Clarke. Lalit Modi invited all representatives of the Test grounds to be his personal guests at the IPL final. We turned the invitation down as we were not in a position to discuss anything in detail." According to Clarke, Modi had presented the counties with a commercial proposition wherein if they supported his idea, the IPL would guarantee each county a minimum of $3-5 million per annum plus a staging fee of $1.5 million. "We have not been guaranteed anything, but if anybody puts anything on the table we will discuss it. We have nine Test grounds and only seven Tests a year. We have to find ways to fill these grounds outside the England team. The nine Test grounds are united in the belief we cannot allow the status quo to continue. There is no future in us creating another Twenty20 competition for all 18 counties. It is not attractive enough to fill the Test grounds. We have to create something new and exciting, a tournament with the appeal of IPL, a British version. We will continue to put these ideas to Giles," Graves said.

http://www.cricinfo.com/ipl2010/content/current/story/458783.html :finger:

[mastana]

waiting for achilles and asterix to explain to us how brilliant this idea was and why modi needs to be applauded for trying to make the IPL even more popular :hehe:

:hehe: Modi s****

[asterix]

Another useless and overblown topic against Modi. ECB tried to use this opportunity to 'misguide' BCCI now that their tormentor Modi is not at the helm.. Feck U ECB..:finger: You'll not be able to 'Devide & Rule' Indians anymore even if haters and conspirators are present in both the sides..

[coffee_rules]

It would probably have made FC cricket popular again, without catering to old foggies drinking beer in the afternoon under the shade.

[Gunner_Mania]

Look at his Bio on Twitter IPL Chairman & Commisioner (suspended)

[achilles]

waiting for achilles and asterix to explain to us how brilliant this idea was and why modi needs to be applauded for trying to make the IPL even more popular :hehe:

Counties rubbish allegations of parallel-IPL agenda The counties who met Lalit Modi in India in March have rubbished the allegations that they were involved in secret talks to set up a parallel IPL in which the existing franchises could bid for nine domestic teams in the UK. In a formal complaint to the BCCI, Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, alleged that Modi was trying to induce the counties into activities that could prove "detrimental to Indian cricket, English cricket and world cricket at large." Clarke's accusations forced the BCCI to slap a second show-cause notice notice on Modi in two weeks, after the board suspended him from all BCCI positions including that as the chairman of the IPL and pressed five specific charges ranging from financial impropriety to "behavioral pattern." "This is totally overblown," Colin Graves, the Yorkshire chairman, told the Guardian on the accusation that Modi's plans had the potential to "hijack" the game. "It was a fact-finding mission. Lalit Modi did not put a proposition on the table. There were no secret proposals, no secret agenda, nothing underhand," Graves said. Though Graves was not in Delhi at the meeting, Yorkshire's chief executive Stewart Regan met Modi, along with representatives from two other counties: Colin Povey, the Warwickshire chief executive and the Lancashire committee member David Hodgkiss. "We attended that meeting in an educational capacity, as we wished to learn more about how the IPL has gone from nowhere to being one of the biggest sporting businesses in the world inside two years," Yorkshire's chief executive, Stewart Regan, told Cricinfo immediately after the BCCI made public the accusations against Modi. "The success of the IPL proves that cricket is a product that people want to buy and that sponsors want to get involved with, and those were the key learning areas that we were interested in. It would not be appropriate to comment any further." Graves concurred with Regan on the success of the IPL model, pointing out the ECB could definitely learn a lot from that. He also stressed that the ECB were kept in the loop about the discussions and he had personally sent Clarke the notes of the meeting. "IPL has been extraordinarily successful and we can learn a lot from it. There was a proper business discussion about how things might develop in the future, the sort of discussions that can benefit the whole of English cricket. Stewart Regan took notes of the meeting and forwarded them to all the Test grounds. I then passed those notes to Giles Clarke. Lalit Modi invited all representatives of the Test grounds to be his personal guests at the IPL final. We turned the invitation down as we were not in a position to discuss anything in detail." According to Clarke, Modi had presented the counties with a commercial proposition wherein if they supported his idea, the IPL would guarantee each county a minimum of $3-5 million per annum plus a staging fee of $1.5 million. "We have not been guaranteed anything, but if anybody puts anything on the table we will discuss it. We have nine Test grounds and only seven Tests a year. We have to find ways to fill these grounds outside the England team. The nine Test grounds are united in the belief we cannot allow the status quo to continue. There is no future in us creating another Twenty20 competition for all 18 counties. It is not attractive enough to fill the Test grounds. We have to create something new and exciting, a tournament with the appeal of IPL, a British version. We will continue to put these ideas to Giles," Graves said. Cricinfo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to see if some people here is man enough to accept that they jumped the gun. :finger: Or is someone going to come with some brilliant suggestions as to how the ECB and BCCI didn't kick themselves in their balls.

[IKnowU]

Look at his Bio on Twitter IPL Chairman & Commisioner (suspended)

:cantstop::cantstop: wadda a funny guy