Expressed delivery
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
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The great duel of egos, for the control of the IPL, was fought with letters. N Srinivasan, the BCCI secretary, initiated the move to clip the wings of commissioner Lalit Modi by terminating IMG's contract. But, by the time the dust settled five days later — it was Modi who emerged as the victor, provisionally at least. Rohit Mahajan has more on the tussle between the two cricket overlords that resulted in epistolary fireworks in Outlook.
The battle had been on more than one front. Sources say the BCCI, trying to hurt Modi in as many ways as possible, had refused to ratify the charitable endowments he had announced in South Africa during IPL-2. Modi, a BCCI source says, had two choices: submit to the will of his antagonists and persuade the IMG to renegotiate—or fight. “It’s a slap on the face of Modi,” says a senior officer with a franchise. “If he’s upset, he has every reason to be so.”