Indian Supreme Court Puts Forward Sunil Gavaskar as Srinivasan’s Replacement at BCCI

The Indian Supreme Court has proposed Indian Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar as the next BCCI president replacing N Srinivasan, sickness it has been revealed.

It also said, prostate at the hearing of the IPL corruption case on Friday, that the IPL 2014 could continue with all teams participating.

Gavaskar will have to be released from his contractual obligations with the BCCI as a commentator but said he should be compensated for his new role.

“I am deeply humbled and honoured that the Honourable Supreme Court of India has entrusted me with the job of being the interim president of the BCCI till the end of IPL 7,” Gavaskar said. “Like with my cricket, I will give it my best shot.”

For the match-fixing case a two-judge bench of AK Patnaik and Ibrahim Kalifulla made it clear that it would reserve its final judgement till all hearings are complete.

The next hearing will be on April 16, when the BCCI counsel would be given the first opportunity to present his arguments against the submissions made by the CAB. 

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