England County Cricket Clubs were quite to jump to Lalit Modi's defense over a parallel IPL. But it appears wherever Lalit Modi treads, there is usually a bone to pick.
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It is completely falling apart for the man who considered his name synonymous with cricket's revolution ( never mind the fact that the ICL had launched before the IPL in a format that looked like the IPL had copied, with a better marketing plan).
Now even as the BCCI awaits Modi's response to the first show cause notice, they were forced to issue a second one, asking Modi about his devious schemes to possibly split the cricket world into the Twenty20 commercial market and the old world cricket, the allegation made by the England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB ).
The counties stated that the meeting with Modi was nothing more than an exercise to finding out ways to market something on the lines of the IPL and how the counties could benefit from such a proposition. They negate Gilles Clarke's argument that Modi was trying to destroy the game as it presently exists.
But the detailed document suggests there was more than just a mere idea being brainstormed. There were concrete concepts that were being toyed with, including setting up a similar Twenty tournament akin to the IPL in order to promote the commercial aspects of the game.
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