Lalit Modi, the founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and former vice-president of the BCCI, has made serious allegations against ex-cricket administrator N Srinivasan and his co-owned franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
The IPL founder made massive revelations in a recent interview, stating that the IPL governing body did “bid rigging” during auction for the second edition to make sure Andrew Flintoff went to CSK. He added that this was done in order to fulfill Srinivasan’s wish.
“Pick out everything-auction rigging. I gave Flintoff to Srinivasan. Yes, we did it. No doubts about it; every team knew about it. Srinivasan wasn’t going to let the IPL happen. He was a thorn in our Board. Yes, we told everybody not to pick (Andrew) Flintoff. Yes, that I did-because Srinivasan said ‘I want Flintoff’,” Lalit Modi mentioned,” said Lalit Modi on Raj Shamani’s YouTube podcast.
Modi revealed that the CSK owner would even change umpires for some matches and also alleged him and his franchise of ‘indirect fixing’.
“When everybody started going on the bandwagon, he was also a member of the board. He was a big adversary of mine. I went up against him, and he did many things. Umpire fixing-he accused me of it, and I accused him right back. He would change the umpire. At first, I didn’t think much about it. But when I realized he was putting a Chennai umpire on a Chennai game, it became an issue for me. That’s called indirect fixing. When I started exposing those things, he went totally against me”, Modi said.
Notably, CSK also served a 2-year ban (2016 and 2017) after their involvement in a spot-fixing and betting scandal.
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