Lalit Modi has been credited with almost single-handedly creating the money-spinning Indian Premier League, which has grown into an international phenomenon, generating over $4 billion in income.
But just as the league seemed poised to soar to another level of success, a seemingly minor row that started with the Kochi IPL franchise snowballed into what some are now calling the “biggest scandal in independent India”, with Modi being accused of corruption, cronyism, nepotism, and fraud.
As the government and the taxman turned their attention to the IPL, the Board of Control for Cricket in India turned against its one-time golden boy, accusing him of running the IPL as his fief. With Modi defying the board and refusing to step aside, the BCCI decided to suspend him and appointed Baroda industrialist Chirayu Amin as interim chairman to “clean up” the IPL.
Is this the end of Lalit Modi’s career as a cricket administrator? What options can he explore now?
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