The Supreme Court installed iconic Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar as the interim chief of the BCCI replacing controversial industrialist-cricket administrator N Srinivasan but only for the Indian Premier League (IPL) seventh edition affairs.
While Gavaskar will head the affairs of the cash rich cricket league that is mired in controversy over spot fixing and betting, the non-IPL chief of BCCI will be former Indian cricketer Shivlal Yadav.
The top court bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik said any vice-president of the BCCI can take over as its chief after the IPL.
The apex court barred anyone connected to Srinivasan owned Indian Cements (which owns Chennai Super Kings team) to be associated with any IPL duty.
The next hearing is on April 16.
The apex court also allowed Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) to play in the seventh IPL as the court softened its stand on the teams.
Gavaskar has to come out of his contracts with the TV channels to officiate as the BCCI interim chief and court has asked the BCCI to compensate for that.
BCCI told the court that Dhoni never misled the IPL scam investigation.
"Very reckless allegations were made against the Indian captain," said BCCI lawyer A Sundaram said, adding that Dhoni never was part of any cover up and "the fact of the matter is that he never said any such thing" as was reported (that Dhoni said he knew Srinivasan's son-in-law Meiyappan, accused of betting, as only a cricket enthusiast and not a Chennai Super Kings functionary).
The Indian Premier League Probe Committee, headed by Justice (Retd) Mukul Mudgal, who had been appointed by the Supreme Court to look into IPL 6 scam, submitted its report on Feb 10 where it found Srinivasan's son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) team's Gurunath Meiyappan guilty of match-fixing.
