Lalit Modi

What a canute...


I thought inciting someone to break a contract was illegal.


Modi says players can join without permission from CA

Sign by Sunday or stay out, IPL tells Australians

Cricinfo staff
February 13, 2008


Australia's cricketers have been issued an ultimatum by the Indian Premier League (IPL) - sign up by the Sunday deadline or stay out for three years. And in a move that might undermine Cricket Australia's authority, Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman and commissioner, has indicated Australian players can take part in the tournament without "no objection certificates" from Cricket Australia, contrary to an earlier guideline that players needed permission from their respective national boards.

"They [the players] are running out of time," Modi told the Sydney Morning Herald. "I am not the type that won't follow through with what I say: if the contracts are not signed and returned by Sunday the Australian players will not be allowed to take part in the IPL for three years. We are taking a list to owners on Monday.

"Each franchise has a US$5 million cap for its team, and the contracts are for three years, so when they bid for players at the auction they will use up all of their cap - there will be no money to buy other players later. We will gladly take the Australian players without no objection certificates, we don't want to go down that path but if we have to, we will."

The move comes on the heels of a tussle between the Indian board-run IPL and Cricket Australia over corporate issues. Cricket Australia is reluctant to let its contracted players appear for teams having competing sponsors to its own.

Modi has stated continually that Cricket Australia's demands over sponsor protection can't be met, and this latest statement could increase the rift. A few Australian players such as Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds have also voiced their disappointment over Cricket Australia's interference.

With big money at stake, the tournament is too tempting for players to ignore, and many believe it could lead to an exodus. ''The cricket world is going to have to respond to the IPL given its magnitude,'' the IPL's Australian-based agent Neil Maxwell told the Daily Telegraph. ''I know [Australian Cricketers' Association chief executive] Paul Marsh made the logical suggestion that ultimately there needs to be a six-week window carved out of the playing itinerary, the Future Tours Program.

''Otherwise players will be leaving. Players will be retiring. Unfortunately at the moment we have a conflict. If that is taken out, there won't be conflict.'' Australia's international schedule clashes with the IPL, but the players might be free if the tour to Pakistan doesn't happen.

© Cricinfo

How is he inciting them? He's telling the facts of the situation - if they don't sign before the deadline, they will be ineligible for 3 years. Fact. It's not like he's offering them a bonus to sign.

how dare a short, rice eating darkie talk in Malcolm Speed's language is what JGK is taking umbrage at.

what a delightful situation. the aussie players vs the aussie board, who should the average aussie back? but i guess the hate for the bcci over-rides everything

The One wrote:what a delightful situation. the aussie players vs the aussie board, who should the average aussie back? but i guess the hate for the bcci over-rides everything

You'd hope so. They are the biggest counts on the face of the Earth.

the average aussie? thats a bit harsh

The One wrote:the average aussie? thats a bit harsh

Nah, the BCCI.... the Aussies are just pitiful counts.

TO, only aussies have the right to talk in that fashion. That's the unwritten code of cricket.

darkies behave or else ...

Oooh whatta naughty little racial segregationist. Racist, racist have you any wool? Not for you, I love only one race. I'll bang on about it in 95% of my posts. Whatta shame.

oh wot a naughty little upstart I am. How dare BCCI threaten this cozy little applecart ?

*Buckaroo* wrote:oh wot a naughty little upstart I am. How dare BCCI threaten this cozy little applecart ?

Hmmm, they shouldn't be threatening anything. Which, to many extents, they aren't at all. But you can get your rattle out and wave it if you like. Furthermore, what you personally have to with the BCCI is beyond me. I just find it 'funny' that some Yank can be giving it the big 'un so much about some stuff happening thousands of miles away about a subject that is so disclusive to his nationalty.

I'm not a full-fledged yank, just another short, rice eating darkie GC holder. And I can still vividly remember Malcolm Speed's taunts on how BCCI though being world's blah cricketing body hadn't achieved anything in cricketing terms since 83' and that too on the back of a series victory in WI. I didn't hear any statments condeming his verbal diarrhoea then .. why is it that only Lalit Modi is being singled out.

yeah he's been matter-of-fact and hasn't laid out the red carpet and garlands like most dhimmi darkies are supposed to do .. and as bliks has correctly pointed out he has just laid out the facts. And apparently that is a bit too much for people to swallow.

Where're the complaints, champ? What?? There are none. So, in essence it's just another chippy little grudge from some bloke who doesn't live in the country he champions so dogmatically. Well, well, well. Bit of a sham. But go ahead, hardly anyone is listening and those who are just have apathy or moderate disdain for you.

Lalit Modi is cruel but fair.

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Why are you arguing with him, Danny?

I'm pretty sure that Buckaroo is Lags.