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BCCI finding ways to guide teenage IPL players

http://www.business-standard.com/ar...guide-teenage-ipl-players-114052201272_1.html

The Indian cricket board is considering ways of helping out under-19 players in the Indian Premier League (IPL), so that they are able to handle the fame and money the tourney brings them and do not go wayward, board interim chief Sunil Gavaskar said Thursday.
The Indian cricket board is considering ways of helping out under-19 players in the Indian Premier League (IPL), so that they are able to handle the fame and money the tourney brings them and do not go wayward, board interim chief Sunil Gavaskar said Thursday.

A year after the cash-rich league was rocked by the spot fixing scandal, that led to the arrests of Test and ODI cricketer S. Sreesanth and his Rajasthan Royals teammates Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, the IPL governing council recommended the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to come up with some guidance programme for the youngsters.

Briefing media after an IPL Governing Council meeting during the day, Gavaskar said the idea had come up from his discussions with four legends of the game - Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman and Anil Kumble - days after he was put in charge of the league by the Supreme Court in March.

"I had called them to take their advice, as they are current cricketers. We had lot of discussions on what should be done. One of the issues was about guiding the lot of youngsters - 16, 17 or 18 years of age.

"The IPL is a hugely covered event. The youngsters are also getting lot of money. A youngster can get carried away. And then Indian cricket would end up losing the youngster, while the youngster would lose some valuable years," said Gavaskar, himself a legendary former opening bat.

"So, in today's meeting we recommended whether the BCCI can do something about this so as to enable the youngster to take care of such things... on how to handle so much money," he said.

Gavaskar said some of the players now taking part in the IPL ply their trade in other tourneys like the English country cricket during the Indian off season. "But most of them stay put in India. It is this group which can be guided."

To another query, Gavaskar said players like Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid could also be roped in for the purpose.

 

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IPL corruption case: Supreme Court declines to reinstate ousted BCCI chief Srinivasan

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to reinstate ousted BCCI chief N Srinivasan and pulled him up for seeking a modification of the previous order passed in the IPL corruption case.

A vacation bench of Justices B S Chauhan and A K Sikri questioned why Srinivasan was asking for a modification now and did not argue against it when the order stripping him of the powers was being passed.

“Vacation bench is not sitting to modify orders passed by other judges What will be more embarrassing for the vacation bench to modify other judges’ orders,” observed the court.

The bench pointed out that the judges who had passed the restraint order were still there and if he BCCI and Srinivasan wanted a modification, they must approach them and request for a hearing.

Srinivasan had sought modification of the order passed by a bench of Justices A K Patnaik and FMI Kalifulla. The court had directed Srinivasan to keep away from the affairs of the BCCI till a full fledged probe into the IPL corruption case was over.

This bench had brought the Mudgal panel back to investigate the role of Srinivasan and 12 players against whom serious charges had been indicated in the previous report of the panel. The bench had asked Sunil Gavaskar to function as BCCI chief for all IPL-related matters and Shivlal Yadav for other matters.

Srinivasan has however moved the court saying he wanted to be reinstated as BCCI head for all non-IPL related matters.

Srinivasan said he was facing “stigma” because of the court order and that it would adversely impact his future career prospects. He also maintained that the hearing in SC will happen in September now and his term as BCCI chief would get over during the pendency of the case in the court.

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...es-to-reinstate-ousted-bcci-chief-srinivasan/