New Delhi, May 11: Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi today strongly objected to the Cricket Board referring him as “then chairman” while announcing the appointment of an advisor to interim chairman Chirayu Amin.
“I have just seen your media release issued today. I strongly object to you using the phrase ‘the then Chairman’ as referring to me. I am still the Chairman and Commissioner of the IPL and at the moment just suspended,” a belligerent Modi said in an e-mail sent to the BCCI.
“I would request you to issue an immediate clarification to the media in this regard,” Modi said, according to ‘Times Now’.
Earlier in the day, BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan said in a media release, “Bharat Patel, former Chairman of Proctor and Gamble is being appointed as the Honorary Advisor to the Interim Chairman of IPL, Chirayu Amin.
–Agencies