Are other BCCI members isolating themselves from N Srinivasan?

Is the absence of three members of the BCCI from the emergency meet held by the cricket board yesterday, a sign that the board’s president N Srinivasan is being cornered over allegations of mismanagement?

The absence of three members from the board - Arun Jaitley, Rajiv Shukla and Anurag Thakur - from the crucial meet in Chennai,  has raised doubts over whether it was a move to isolate themselves from the BCCI chief. The trio instead attended the meeting through video conferencing.

Sources have told CNN-IBN that some of the top members of the Board have been openly vocal about the ICC’s Anti-Corruption board report on the dangers of fixing in the League. Some members are also bothered about the way IPL is being handled with very little accountability.

However, IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla has claimed that he had no knowledge of the report.

“We regularly with the ICC’s anti-corruption wing to avert these kind of incidents only,” he told CNN-IBN when shown a copy of the report.

Speaking to the press yesterday, Srinivasan agreed that there was a need to take the report more seriously and has announced several measures that should be followed to avoid such incidents in the future.

“Agents of all the players need to be accredited with BCCI. There will be a Board representative all the time monitoring the players,” he said.

As the IPL spot fixing scam gets more murkier, BCCI has been forced to launch an internal investigation into Ankeet Chavan, Ajit Chandila and S Sreesanth. This is in addition to the police investigation that is going on. BCCI has said that the cricketers will be punished if the probe finds them guilty.