<p>Former BCCI secretary Jaywant Lele on Sunday equated the happenings at the BCCI’s Emergent Working Committee meeting in Chennai to match-fixing in itself and termed the process of appointing Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member interim arrangement as “unconstitutional”.<br /><br />“I am absolutely disappointed at what happened today. What’s the difference between this and match-fixing? First of all, the whole thing is unconstitutional as the working committee cannot appoint anyone,” the outspoken Lele told PTI from Vadodara.<br /><br />After an acrimonious meeting convened at less than the required 72 hours’ notice, N Srinivasan on Sunday agreed to “step aside” as BCCI president under a compromise formula that brought back former chief Dalmiya as head of a four-member “interim arrangement” to run the Board, more than a fortnight after the spot-fixing scandal rocked cricketing world. “Everything was unconstitutional. Srinivasan has not resigned, so where is the question of Jagmohan Dalmiya being appointed as interim president,” queried Lele.<br /><br />“Whatever has happened is all nonsense. Good luck to the Cricket Board,” Lele concluded in disgust.<br /><br />Dalmiya will appoint a new member on the three-member inquiry commission in place of Sanjay Jagdale that will go into the allegations of betting and spot-fixing against Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan and his franchise CSK. <br /><br />‘Biggest cover-up’<br /><br />Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi termed the entire episode in Chennai the “biggest cover-up in cricket” and said having Dalmiya as the head was not the solution.<br />“Biggest coverup in cricket has begun. N Srinivasan with co-conspirator Arun Jaitley and Rajeev Shukla,” Modi said.</p>.<p>“Mr (former president IS) Bindra was the Lone Ranger who asked for Srini’s Resignation. Mr Dalmia taking over us not a solution that anyone should accept,” Modi wrote on his twitter handle.<br /><br />He further said the controversies surrounding Indian cricket at the moment was the biggest of them all.<br /><br />“It is probably going to go down as the biggest one of them all. Cricket is a religion in our country. But hijacked by greedy men.<br /><br />“As expected the Axis of Evil carefully planned strategy has worked. The poison is so deeply rooted and controlled by them God Save Cricket,” Modi said. <br /></p>
<p>Former BCCI secretary Jaywant Lele on Sunday equated the happenings at the BCCI’s Emergent Working Committee meeting in Chennai to match-fixing in itself and termed the process of appointing Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member interim arrangement as “unconstitutional”.<br /><br />“I am absolutely disappointed at what happened today. What’s the difference between this and match-fixing? First of all, the whole thing is unconstitutional as the working committee cannot appoint anyone,” the outspoken Lele told PTI from Vadodara.<br /><br />After an acrimonious meeting convened at less than the required 72 hours’ notice, N Srinivasan on Sunday agreed to “step aside” as BCCI president under a compromise formula that brought back former chief Dalmiya as head of a four-member “interim arrangement” to run the Board, more than a fortnight after the spot-fixing scandal rocked cricketing world. “Everything was unconstitutional. Srinivasan has not resigned, so where is the question of Jagmohan Dalmiya being appointed as interim president,” queried Lele.<br /><br />“Whatever has happened is all nonsense. Good luck to the Cricket Board,” Lele concluded in disgust.<br /><br />Dalmiya will appoint a new member on the three-member inquiry commission in place of Sanjay Jagdale that will go into the allegations of betting and spot-fixing against Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan and his franchise CSK. <br /><br />‘Biggest cover-up’<br /><br />Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi termed the entire episode in Chennai the “biggest cover-up in cricket” and said having Dalmiya as the head was not the solution.<br />“Biggest coverup in cricket has begun. N Srinivasan with co-conspirator Arun Jaitley and Rajeev Shukla,” Modi said.</p>.<p>“Mr (former president IS) Bindra was the Lone Ranger who asked for Srini’s Resignation. Mr Dalmia taking over us not a solution that anyone should accept,” Modi wrote on his twitter handle.<br /><br />He further said the controversies surrounding Indian cricket at the moment was the biggest of them all.<br /><br />“It is probably going to go down as the biggest one of them all. Cricket is a religion in our country. But hijacked by greedy men.<br /><br />“As expected the Axis of Evil carefully planned strategy has worked. The poison is so deeply rooted and controlled by them God Save Cricket,” Modi said. <br /></p>