Kapil moving to Court to Settle the Score with BCCI
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009

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BCCI thinks it is its sole prerogative to control every aspects of cricket in the sub continent; Indian Cricket League thinks it has got the right to do business with the game that the nation is crazy about. But BCCI is not prepared to leave even an inch of its ground. From yesterday’s impasse in Johannesburg, it is clear that BCCI wants to kill ICL. But the ICL chairman wants to take the battle further.

ICL’s fate has come to a critical juncture following the failure of the tripartite meeting between ICC, ICL and BCCI. Yet another stalemate in ICL’s quest for recognition from the International cricket council, thanks to the aggressive stance of BCCI. The high profile meeting involving ICC chief Haroon Lorgat, N. Srinivasan representing BCCI and Subhash Chandra and Himanshu Modi representing Essel group that runs Indian Cricket League failed to yield any positive outcome and the clout will continue till the ICC board meeting in Dubai this April.

In the aftermath of the failure of Johannesburg meeting, the Indian domestic cricket is going to take the shape of legal battle ground with Kapil seeking a courtroom solution to the issue. Both the Indian Cricket League and BCCI have their own tournaments and both of them are set in the same Twenty-20 format. Zee television promoted ICL’ stand is clear---it is ready to conclude the battle in a win-win situation. On the other hand, the cricket board wants their IPL to reign and declares ICL illegal. Not only it bans Indian Indian Cricket League players from participating in Indian domestic or international cricket, it has used its influence in ICC to make it ban the players belonging to other countries from international cricket.

And it is this BCCI practice of giving the last verdict to everything associated with cricket in the country infuriates Kapil Dev, country’s one and only world cup winning captain and Indian Cricket League chairman. “I can’t understand who has given the BCCI the right to be the sole authority for promoting cricket in India... The ICL too is doing just that, so why our boys should be punished? That, to me, is not justice,” says the former Indian skipper.

While Kapil Dev maintains that as a sportsman he does not like issues of sports being settled in courtroom, but with yet another failing of talks, ICL will have no other option than approaching the court. However, ICC was well aware that interference of law is imminent sooner or latter. Already the former Indian players whose ICC pension has been stopped by BCCI have already moved the court seeking justice. Now it is to be seen whether Indian legal system could stop BCCI from playing the role of Big Boss in all things cricket. To know how the things shape up you have to wait a few more days. From our side, things should be clear after a week or so,” the Indian Cricket League board chairman pointed out.


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