Mumbai: The Governing Council of the popular but troubled Indian Premier League will meet on Sunday to discuss the reaction of the suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, and also to chalk out a new roadmap for the T20 incident.
The
IPL Governing Council chief and politician, Rajeev Shukla, is hopped to search into the finer points of the strong judgment issued a few days ago by three-member Supreme Court-appointed panel headed by former Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha.
Star-studded metropolis Super Kings, cheat IPL champions, and inaugural edition winners Rajasthan Royals were suspended from the T20 League for two years as penalty for gambling activities of their key officers Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra throughout the 2013 season.
Meiyappan, the pre squad Principal of CSK, and Kundra, co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals, were suspended forever for pampering in gambling and transfer the IPL and also the game into discredit.
Justice Lodha Committee was implanted by the Supreme Court in January this year with its squad of reference being to declare the quantity of penalty against Meiyappan, Kundra and also the two franchisees -- India Cements Ltd, owner of CSK and Jaipur IPL, homeowners of Rajasthan Royals.
The IPL administration desperately must chart out a swish road map for the cash-rich however controversy-ridden T20 League, closely-held by the
Cricket Board (BCCI), that has seesaw on the sting for quite it slow.
It has quite an few choices before of it to resurrect the falling name and quality of the league that has taken one hit once another over the years since it started with a hardly attacked in 2008.
Putting on a brave face Shukla had commented once the judgment that the controversy-ridden IPL remained a
"robust" product, insistence that the event can return stronger with a minimum of 8 groups.
"We Pine Tree Stateasure} perpetually involved regarding IPL and let me assure you ensuing edition are a much bigger success. IPL may be a strong product and this judgement mustn ' t have an effect on IPL as a product. the concept is to possess the tournament fully format with a minimum of 8 groups. We will not hold the event with 6 groups," Shukla had aforesaid.
According to Shukla one in every of the choices accessible for the IPL is to run the 2 suspended groups with BCCI management. Asked why the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha committee itself did not ban the franchise, Justice Lodha said: "We are appointed as a disciplinary committee and (Clause) eleven.3 deals with written agreement obligation which must be dealt by BCCI, therefore we will not get into it."
Clause 11.3 (c) of the
BCCI-IPL franchise agreement says the agreement are often terminated if "the Franchise, any Franchise cluster Company and any owner acts in any manner that encompasses a material adverse impact upon the name or standing of the League,
BCCI-IPL, BCCI, the Franchise, the squad and the sport of cricket."