IPL Fixing.

[AbhishekS]

Remove the ownership and put up the team for sale is different from banning the franchise. I hope Mr. Abhishek Sharma understands this basic thing.

The franchise has to be banned. CSK is a franchise, not Chennai. Ban CSK, and put the team city up for sale. Similar to SRH. The DC franchise was dissolved and the SRH franchise came up. If you still don't get the point, I rest my case.

I don't know why Chennai people are so aggressive. Nobody wants Team Chennai banned, people just want Chennai Super Kings banned.

Simple logic.

1. CSK owner is a Cement company.
2. Srinivasan is owner of that company.
3. Meiyappan is son in law of Srinivasan.
4. Meiyappan was involved in betting but Srinivasan wasn't.

Not simple, but fail logic!
CSK is owned by India Cements which is headed by Srinivasan.
But the owner of CSK is need not be the owner of India Cements. The franchise was in the name of Gurunath Meiyappan (it's in Srinivasan's name since the scandal, just to save the asses).

And you say CSK has never announced it! LOL.
Have a look at these pictures.

Image 1: An article on the official website of CSK

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Image 2: Gurunath Meiyappan doing foolish things. Editing his Twitter bio after the scandal.

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Image 3: Scanned copy of Gurunath Meiyappan's Visiting Card

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Image 4: Some more articles from the official CSK website

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Image 5: Meiyappan attends the auction for CSK. Video footage available too. Only the owners are allowed for this. This old tweet was deleted after the scandal

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Image 6: An e-mail sent by Rajiv Shukla finalizing the list of owners and co-owners. Meiyappan is named in the list

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Image 7: Some more tweets from verified accounts

 

[zeustrojanstark]

The franchise has to be banned. CSK is a franchise, not Chennai. Ban CSK, and put the team city up for sale. Similar to SRH. The DC franchise was dissolved and the SRH franchise came up. If you still don't get the point, I rest my case.

I don't know why Chennai people are so aggressive. Nobody wants Team Chennai banned, people just want Chennai Super Kings banned.

You cannot expect everyone to be as brilliant as you are Abhishek. You could have told this clearly long time back. Now what you said is what even i am saying in a lot of places. I never intend to defend Srinivasan or India Cements, IC doesnt even belong to Srini, there is a politician called Maran here who owns Aircel and India Cements in different names, thats it. If you had put up this way long back, it would have been much better. Anyway, good that you posted it atleast now.

 

[cricket_icon]

the more I read this thread, the more I'm confirmed in my suspicions of top level corruption within the IPL. It's a corrupt institute led by corrupt individuals.

 

[Ohm]

Image 1: An article on the official website of CSK

Couldn't you post this before? But still confusing.

I found two points there: -
1. Mr. Srinivasan, Managing director, India Cement is franchise owner of super kings

2. Mr. Meiyappan, owner of the team.(?????????????)

Expain this ****: -
Srinivasan = Owner of CSK franchise
Meiyappan = Owner of team

The team onwer & Franchise owner are different from each other. Why? How?

 

[Bevab]

Couldn't you post this before? But still confusing.

I found two points there: -
1. Mr. Srinivasan, Managing director, India Cement is franchise owner of super kings

2. Mr. Meiyappan, owner of the team.(?????????????)

Expain this ****: -
Srinivasan = Owner of CSK franchise
Meiyappan = Owner of team

The team onwer & Franchise owner are different from each other. Why? How?

CSK is owned by India Cements which is headed by Srinivasan.
But the owner of CSK is need not be the owner of India Cements. The franchise was in the name of Gurunath Meiyappan (it's in Srinivasan's name since the scandal, just to save the asses).

There's your answer.

 

[AbhishekS]

Glad you finally realized it, Paladin!

 

[vaibhavtewatia]

India Cricket News: Gurunath Meiyappan named in betting chargesheet | ESPN Cricinfo

Gurunath Meiyappan, a former senior official of Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of BCCI president N Srinivasan, has been charged by Mumbai police with cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy - including pass on information that comprised the team - in connection with the IPL 2013.

However,

he was not charged with fixing - as was deemed possible in the days following his arrest.

 

[Ohm]

Charges against Gurunath proved.

 

[SaiSrini]

Its time for the Srinivasan detractors to swiftly move in and demand action against CSK. Scrap the franchise, and get to the task of finding a new owner for the city of Chennai. Please please do not scrap Chennai! The fan base of Chennai is huge to be scrapping them. Get those b*****ds "India Cements" out, and set up an auction for new owners.

Or best thing, scrap CSK for this IPL, and after this IPL, find a new owner for Chennai. Its embarassing to support a city team whose owners are this corrupt. As CSK fans, we demand an answer. I hope the players were not involved in this rut.

 

[sami ullah khan]

There is huge news here in our media dragging in names of Dhoni and Raina in IPL spot fixing. Indian media is said to be source of this information.

 

[abhi_jacko]

I cant believe the auction is going through without any action on CSK - it is just so silly and stupid.

Dissolving or scrapping or whatever is done after the auctions will be totally unfair to the players who are 'bought' by CSK owners at the auction, especially when the players themselves have no say in it

Ofcourse, I wont be surprised if no action is taken.

 

[Gaurav_7]

Yeah, Indian media (Zee News) say they have the evidence where a bookie has mentioned the names of Dhoni and Raina in fixing. Just that though.

I agree that the auction should not take place till a proper action is taken against those involved in fixing. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of IPL. It has already done a lot of harm to world cricket as is. Shame to see this sport go into corrupt hands and this happening. I as a passionate cricket fanatic and follower am very sad to see this happen. Really love the sport but can't do anything to correct it but, watch.

 

[Cricketman]

I still don't understand why so many people care if Gurunath made bets or not. Yeah it's illegal, but it is not equal to fixing the match.

Meanwhile, Raj Kundra, owner of Rajasthan Royals, casually admitted on twitter that he did bet on his team. Nobody is saying anything about that franchise...

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Yeah, Indian media (Zee News) say they have the evidence where a bookie has mentioned the names of Dhoni and Raina in fixing. Just that though.

I agree that the auction should not take place till a proper action is taken against those involved in fixing. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of IPL. It has already done a lot of harm to world cricket as is. Shame to see this sport go into corrupt hands and this happening. I as a passionate cricket fanatic and follower am very sad to see this happen. Really love the sport but can't do anything to correct it but, watch.

IPL is not going anywhere, neither is T20 and franchise based cricket. The sooner we all realize that and work around it, the better....

 

[ferg512]

I still don't understand why so many people care if Gurunath made bets or not. Yeah it's illegal, but it is not equal to fixing the match.

Didn't he provide bookies information though? And regardless its still illegal.

Also can't really expect anything to happen when the head of the BCCI/ICC also owns the most popular team.

 

[Cricketman]

The closest thing to 'providing info to bookies' is that the predicted they would score 140 and they ended up scoring that much... not enough evidence IMO