I was wrong on Gurunath's CSK role: Hussey

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Oct 14 2013 | 8:11 PM IST
Just days after claiming that Gurunath Meiyappan, who was arrested for his alleged role in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, was actually running the Chennai Super Kings team, Michael Hussey today made a U-turn, saying that he might have written wrongly in his autobiography.
In his book -- Underneath The Southern Cross -- CSK opener and former Australia batsman Hussey has said that the Chennai IPL team owner and BCCI president N Srinivasan had handed the control of the franchise to his son-in-law Gurunath.
But, Hussey backtracked his assertion, saying that he was not completely clear about Gurunath's position in the CSK team, according to a report.
"Certainly Guru was around the team a lot. I knew he was talking to Kepler (Wessels, Super Kings' coach in IPL 2008) and the players, and we saw him at training and at the hotel. I didn't know what his official title was but he was around the team quite often. I probably may have written the wrong thing," Hussey was quoted as saying on the Cricket Couch podcast on 'ESPNcricinfo'.
"I knew he was a close part of the team, no question about that, and I saw him around the team pretty much every day. (But) I am certainly not going to question the word of Mr Srinivasan. I think he would know a lot better than me about who is running the show. So maybe I got that a little bit wrong," he insisted.
Hussey also said that he has met Srinivasan, who is the vice-chairman and managing director of India Cements which owns CSK, and has apologised.
Stating that he has cleared the air with Srinivasan when he met him during a team dinner, Hussey said, "We had a team dinner where Mr Srinivasan came along. I spoke to him very briefly about it and apologised if I caused him any grief.
"He was fine and said, 'No, don't worry, it is all fine. There is no issue with all you said. It was all written before all the controversies came out, anyway. You don't have anything to worry about.
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First Published: Oct 14 2013 | 8:11 PM IST

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