Never once to hold back when the opportunity presents itself, former Indian cricketer, Bishen Singh Bedi took Modi to task for bringing the game into disrepute.
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Speaking to one of the news channels in India, Bedi was scathingly disapproving of the ways of the suspended IPL Chairman and Commissioner.
His own words are explicit enough, requiring no explanation, "Lalit Modi is a spoilt brat. Without knowing anything about the game, without knowing it at the grass-root level, look what he was running, a cricket tournament. And above all, during the final at DY Patil stadium in Mumbai, this bugger was tossing the coin in the presence of Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
"To my mind, Modi has damaged the Indian cricket very badly. I must say, it was not the need, but the greed that had taken everybody with a clean swipe.
"They (BCCI and IPL governing council) knew it all along, but they did not have the guts to put Modi in place. In a sense they were colluding. They turned blind eye towards him and the tournament. They were colluding."
He did not spare the stalwarts of the game, "Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar and Tiger Pataudi should have resigned from the council by now. Gavaskar and Shastri were commentating during the whole tournament. Pataudi was doing nothing. You can't allow your names to be misused by a person (Modi) whom you don't know exactly. Money is stopping them, keeping them quiet. I'll leave it to their conscience whether it's the right thing to do."
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