MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India and former India captain Sunil Gavaskar are at it again. The latest salvo was fired by BCCI secretary N Srinivasan on Tuesday evening, who accused the batting legend of "demanding Rs 20 crore as remuneration for being on the IPL governing council".
Srinivasan was reacting to Gavaskar’s comments to NDTV earlier in the day where the latter said he was yet to be paid by the BCCI for his role as a governing council (GC) member of the Indian Premier League. "I have not been paid at all by the BCCI since I took the offer and have been sending gentle reminders about it (to the board)," he said and hoped to meet the BCCI president Shashank Manohar to clear the issue.
BCCI officials reacted strongly to former captain Sunil Gavaskar’s comments that he’s yet to be paid for his role as a governing council (GC) member of the IPL. Saying that his doors were open for Gavaskar, BCCI president Shashank Manohar clarified that "all payments have been cleared except for the last quarter".
Gavaskar, along with former India captains Ravi Shastri and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, was part of the eight-member GC headed by Lalit Modi, which took all key decisions of the three editions of the IPL. The trio was offered Rs 1 crore each per year for their services. That panel was disbanded during the Board’s AGM in September and now only two cricketers - Shastri and Mohinder Amarnath - are on board. Interestingly, they are on par with six others on the panel as honorary members.
The BCCI has clearly said that they will not make any extra payment to the former India captain for any role he has played on the GC apart from the unpaid dues. The board further explained that all matters of payment are approved in the BCCI’s working committee meetings. "His (Gavaskar) contract is of Rs 1 crore per year but he claims he was promised an additional Rs 4 crore a year. The BCCI has no knowledge of any such commitment and therefore it has been unanimously decided that the money will not be paid," Srinivasan said.
"Those terms were not acceptable to the board. As per the agreement with the BCCI, former players on the GC were to be paid only Rs 1 crore each per year for three years."
Gavaskar also dragged ICC president and former board chief Sharad Pawar into the controversy saying the latter offered to facilitate a meeting between him and Manohar.
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Srinivasan was reacting to Gavaskar’s comments to NDTV earlier in the day where the latter said he was yet to be paid by the BCCI for his role as a governing council (GC) member of the Indian Premier League. "I have not been paid at all by the BCCI since I took the offer and have been sending gentle reminders about it (to the board)," he said and hoped to meet the BCCI president Shashank Manohar to clear the issue.
BCCI officials reacted strongly to former captain Sunil Gavaskar’s comments that he’s yet to be paid for his role as a governing council (GC) member of the IPL. Saying that his doors were open for Gavaskar, BCCI president Shashank Manohar clarified that "all payments have been cleared except for the last quarter".
Gavaskar, along with former India captains Ravi Shastri and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, was part of the eight-member GC headed by Lalit Modi, which took all key decisions of the three editions of the IPL. The trio was offered Rs 1 crore each per year for their services. That panel was disbanded during the Board’s AGM in September and now only two cricketers - Shastri and Mohinder Amarnath - are on board. Interestingly, they are on par with six others on the panel as honorary members.
The BCCI has clearly said that they will not make any extra payment to the former India captain for any role he has played on the GC apart from the unpaid dues. The board further explained that all matters of payment are approved in the BCCI’s working committee meetings. "His (Gavaskar) contract is of Rs 1 crore per year but he claims he was promised an additional Rs 4 crore a year. The BCCI has no knowledge of any such commitment and therefore it has been unanimously decided that the money will not be paid," Srinivasan said.
"Those terms were not acceptable to the board. As per the agreement with the BCCI, former players on the GC were to be paid only Rs 1 crore each per year for three years."
Gavaskar also dragged ICC president and former board chief Sharad Pawar into the controversy saying the latter offered to facilitate a meeting between him and Manohar.
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