IPL chief Threatens to Pull Out SRK's Team

The Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi has threatened to pullout the Kolkata team and bring it to Ahmedabad after the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) expressed unhappiness over ticket allotment.

Modi sent an e-mail to CAB President Prasun Mukherjee in which he says, "We cannot and will not allow one city to derail the whole process."

Modi's reply was in response Mukherjee's apprehensions over the allotment of just 20 per cent of tickets to the CAB for the IPL matches.

The CAB, meanwhile, has called an emergency working committee meeting on Monday to discuss the issue and has hinted that the tussle may even go to court.

The CAB lawyers have said that since the IPL has been set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, its control remains with the Indian cricket board.

They have raised the issue if the CAB is right in saying the BCCI does not have anything to do with the IPL matches?

CAB has also asked who are the organisers of the IPL match.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment had won the bid for the Kolkata team and former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is most likely to become its captain.

The other cities that will have their teams in the IPL are Bangalore, Mumbai, Mohali/Chandigarh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Chennai.

While the bidding for the players is to be held on February 20, the matches of the Twenty20 tournament start from April 18.

Real estate developers DLF Group are the title sponsorship of the IPL after its successful Rs 200-crore bid.

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