Modi''s lawyer hits back at BCCI chief Manohar

Sat, Aug 28 10 07:37 PM

Mumbai, Aug 28 (PTI) Lalit Modi''s lawyer today hit out at Cricket Board President Shashank Manohar for calling the suspended IPL chairman a "liar" and said his client had not made any accusations of fixing player''s auction against BCCI secretary N Srinivasan. "Very unfortunate to hear such an intemperate expression by BCCI president Shashank Manohar calling Lalit Modi a liar, whereas Mr Modi has not said anything," Modi''s lawyer Mehmood Abdi told PTI. Earlier in the day, the Cricket Board threw its weight behind Srinivasan and rejected what it termed Modi''s allegations that the BCCI Secretary had fixed the 2009 players'' auction. BCCI chief Manohar told reporters after the Working Committee meeting here that the accusations against Srinivasan, who owns the Chennai Super Kings team, were "blatant lies". "I can produce papers which prove that the charges levelled by Mr Modi against Mr Srinivasan are blatant lies," Manohar said which was contested by Abdi who said Modi had not issued any such remark. "It''s the trail of e-mails which speak for themselves. If BCCI disputed them they should confront them at an appropriate forum instead of denying the existence of any such mails summarily. This shows the double standards followed by BCCI - one for Modi and the other for BCCI secretary N Srinivasan," he said. A TV channel had claimed that Srinivasan, in connivance with Modi, tried to fix the bid for Andrew Flintoff in Chennai Super Kings'' favour and gave details of purported e-mail exchanges between the two. (More) PTI SSR VKV PDS

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