• IPL day of reckoning, in all means would see the light, when a decision is supposed to be arrived on 22nd march, by the BCCI working committee meeting, according to IPL board. A big jolt occurred for IPL authorities, when they received some reservations from Andhra police recently on hosting IPL, which has no issues earlier. Laith Modi had an informal meeting on 21st march with BCCI former president and current ICC vice president, Sharad Pawar, BCCi current President Shasank Manohar and BCCI secretary N . Srinivasan. According to Lalith Modi, fate and schedule of live ipl would be decided in the working committee meeting and news about IPL would be aired within afternoon itself. BCCI working committee is said to be the powerful body, which comprises of all vice presidents, office bearers of BCCI, former vice presidents and all test venues along with affiliated venues which is selected on rotation basis. There are speculations in air, that BCCI would try to avail Sharad Pawar political power to acquire consent from central government and it seems IPL fate and schedule in all probabilities will be revealed to us by Sunday or earlier next week, when Union Home Minister M. K Chidambaram visits his home town Chennai. Already experts have voiced their opinion on IPL, asking for cutting down venues to 3 to 4, so that it would be easy to manage the security and also routes where team travel could be also secured. There are huge complaints loaded against Mark Nicholas, who is taking care of the security of IPL and also a member of ICC board of security, for pleasing IPL bosses than being solicitous about the security issues. Lalith Modi must be a man of great valour, even after Andhra Police and Mumbai police issued reservations of staging IPL, he sounded optimistic stating, that they have all contingency plans prepared earlier, to meet any kind of situation. He also stated that they had totally 42 schedules prepared ready prepared ready for IPL and expressed hope, that even if authorities have reservations on many, at least one could do the job. But MR M. K Chidamabarm, had made it clear that avoiding political dates is not just enough, as they can’t compromise their security to polls, which remains their first priority and also gave cue, that if State government can give security assurance, he had no issues in staging of IPL.
 
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