Srinivasan defiant, rivals plotting moves for ouster

BCCI President N Srinivasan's rivals were today said to be plotting a strategy to seek his ouster even as he remained defiant rejecting demands for his resignation in the wake of the arrest of his son-in-law and CSK team owner Gurunath Meiyappan on betting charges.
However, doubts over tomorrow's IPL final involving CSK and Mumbai Indians were cleared with IPL Chairman Rajeev Shukla saying that the match will be held as scheduled tomorrow in Kolkata.
Shukla told reporters that "everything is under discussion" but did not elaborate.
Hectic lobbying was on in both camps as Srinivasan arrived in Kolkata where former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya hosted a dinner for BCCI functionaries ahead of tomorrow's final.

Srinivasan supporters and TNCA officials were calling various state units in a bid to lobby support for the beleaguered chief against whom his rivals are planning to initiate the process of ouster after the IPL finals.
Earlier in the day in Mumbai, he made it clear that he has no intention of resigning as he has done nothing wrong.

"I can't be bulldozed or railroaded into resigning. Some sources are trying (to put) pressure now. There is no question of it (resigning)," Srinivasan told reporters outside the Mumbai airport.
The 68-year-old cricket board chief, who has been facing mounting pressure to quit, said BCCI would follow strictly all its rules and law will take its course.

However, sources in the BCCI say that a section of the Board may be grouping up against the beleaguered chief and seek his suspension if not immediate removal following the embarrassing arrest of his son-in-law by Mumbai Police on charges of betting on IPL games.