Mumbai: “I have no intention to resign,” Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president N Srinivasan said here yesterday after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing scandal.
“I have not done anything wrong, I have no intention to resign. I cannot be bulldozed into resigning. The BCCI will follow its rules. There is no question of my stepping down. If someone wants to replace me, let him get elected. If I have done something wrong, then it is a different matter,” Srinivasan told NDTV, after landing here to meet his son-in-law yesterday.
The clamour for Srinivasan’s resignation got louder after Chennai Super Kings team principal Meiyappan on Friday was arrested by the Mumbai police.
“There will be no discrimination for Gurunath. He will be treated like everyone else. Whatever steps will be taken, will be taken objectively and fairly,” Srinivasan said.
Srinivasan remained in the line of fire with Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy and former International Cricket Council (ICC) and BCCI president Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) calling for his resignation on moral grounds.
The IPL scam, which seems to be getting bigger by the day, came to light when Rajasthan Royals cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested on spot fixing charges last Wednesday.
KARACHI: Troubled Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf will fight to clear his name in an ongoing spot-fixing scandal in India, family sources said yesterdayday, saying he had returned to his home in Lahore.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) this week withdrew the 57-year-old umpire from next month’s Champions Trophy in England in the wake of media reports that he was under police investigation.
Mumbai police on Friday refused to confirm whether Rauf would be called in for questioning, as media outlets in India and Pakistan tried to track the umpire down. Rauf’s family said he returned to his home in Lahore a few days ago.
“Rauf has nothing to hide, he reached Lahore after completing his matches in the league (in India),” a family source told AFP without elaborating.
The ICC has said it felt it was in “Asad’s best interests as well as those of the sport and the event itself” for him to no longer participate in the Champions Trophy.
Rauf, who has overseen 48 Tests and 98 one-day internationals, was one of the umpires during the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the centre of the corruption probe. AGENCIES
