New Delhi: Arun Jaitley, a BCCI vice-president, has revealed that he is "not fully satisfied" with how the crucial working committee meeting on Sunday panned out. At the meeting it was decided that BCCI president N Srinivasan would step aside from his post till the completion of the inquiry into his son-in-law, arrested on May 26 on charges of betting in the IPL, and Jaitley also remarked that he would have been happier with a "cordial arrangement" when the crisis first broke.
When asked specifically what his main concern was, Jaitley told NDTV, "When insiders get into betting, it transforms into fixing and it is a huge challenge. It makes me uneasy." Jaitley, a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is widely tipped to take over as BCCI president next year.
There had been plenty of speculation that Srinivasan would be forced to resign at the Sunday meeting, but he managed to avoid that situation, and former ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya was temporarily put in charge of the BCCI.
Jaitley also said that his candidate for interim president had been Shashank Manohar. "I suggested Shashank Manohar's name; we did not want to squabble over names," he said. "There is no reason to doubt that Dalmiya will not do a reasonable job, he is a senior administrator committed to the game."
Dalmiya, who is currently president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, began supervising the day-to-day activities of the BCCI from Monday. He has headed the ICC previously, and is widely credited with being among those who laid the foundation for Indian cricket to become the financial powerhouse it is. |
