Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at last ended his stoic hush over the IPL spot-fixing scandal on Sunday, saying that he doesn’t expect the hypothesis around his name to stop whenever soon in spite of nothing concrete heading up against him.
Dhoni, who captains Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League, has been amazingly smooth in the last couple of years in spite of his name consistently springing up in cases relating to clash of interest.
There have been a wild speculation about his name being among the yet-to-be-discharged rundown of 13 players, who have been arraigned by the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.
“I know one thing, irrespective of what is there, when it comes to Indian cricket, my name keeps popping up. Now that this has been settled, something new will pop up. It keeps popping up. I am quite used to it,” Dhoni said in front of the tri-series match against Australia.
“If there is nothing, some speculative story comes up, big or small. I have to keep dealing with all these things. It is the end of one story, something else may start in a couple of days’ time,” Dhoni said.
Conveying its hotly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court banished BCCI president in a state of banishment N Srinivasan from contesting the Board’s Presidential decisions.
The Court likewise proclaimed that the assertion of betting against Gurunath Meiyappan, a CSK group authority and son-in-law of Srinivasan, and Rajasthan Royals co-manager Raj Kundra stands proved while the charge of cover-up against Srinivasan was “not proved”.
Striking down decides that allowed BCCI office bearers to have a business enthusiasm by owning groups in the tremendously prominent Indian Premier League and Champions League, a two-part seat of Justices T S Thakur and F M I Khalifulla, said, “Amendment in the BCCI rules allowing Srinivasan to own IPL team is bad as conflict of interest in cricket leads to great confusion.”
While he has declined to comment on the issue previously, this time around Dhoni was asked an alternate question, if the last governing in the matter has come as an alleviation since the matter is presently reaching a close end pending a three-judge tribunal making a last judgment.
There has been wild, insidious and clearly unverified speculation that his was among 13 names introduced in a sealed envelope by the Justice Mudgal board to the Supreme Court.
– PTI