Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi leveled a serious allegation against ex-BCCI president N Srinivasan, claiming he fixed auctions for his team, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), and also appointed Chennai-based umpires for CSK matches.
In an explosive interview with Raj Shamani on the YouTube show ‘Figuring Out,’ Modi asserted that Srinivasan, then the BCCI secretary, was not supportive of the IPL. When Modi opposed him, Srinivasan allegedly began influencing CSK matches by selecting umpires from Chennai.
“He (N Srinivasan) didn’t like IPL; he didn’t think IPL will work but when it started to work everybody got the bandwagon. He was member and secretary of the board also so he was the biggest adversary of mine. I went up against him, so he did many things, umpire fixing, he said, ‘I did it’, Lalit said.
“I accused him for it. He would change the umpire and I didn’t think two things about it. But then I realized he is putting Chennai umpire in Chennai games, it’s an issue for me. That’s called fixing so when I tried to expose those, he went totally against me,” he added.
“Kolkata was his final choice”- Lalit Modi reveals the IPL team Shah Rukh Khan sought before KKR
Lalit Modi, the inaugural chairman and commissioner of the IPL, recently revealed that Shah Rukh Khan’s first choice wasn’t Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for the league’s debut season. Modi shared on Raj Shamani’s podcast that the actor initially wanted to buy the Mumbai franchise but chose Kolkata after Reliance Industries acquired the Mumbai team.
He stated:
“His (Shah Rukh’s) first choice was Mumbai, but Mukesh Ambani took that. Kolkata was his eventual pick. But Shah Rukh’s real contribution was in making cricket entertaining.”
Notably, Mumbai became the priciest franchise at the 2008 team ownership auction, valued at $111.90 million. Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment and Mehta Group secured Kolkata for $75.09 million.
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