As the BCCI continues to pound former IPL chairman Lalit Modi with a barrage of show-cause notices three and still counting the suspended IPL commissioners lawyer Mehmood Abdi insisted on Tuesday that the situation had turned into a joke.
Abdi,who was welcomed by a huge gathering of reporters at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbaiwhere he submitted his clients hard-copy reply to the second show-cause noticealso added that unlike Modis first replywhich ran up to a staggering 15,000 pagesthis one was a 24-page copy.
Abdi believed that the second show-cause notice,that accused Modi of trying to create a rebel T20 league in England,was based around a serious case of a Chinese Whisper where information between three entities gets distorted. There is a total disconnect between what one of the executives of the counties,who met Mr Modi in Delhi,sent in an email on March 31,2010 and what Mr Giles Clarke sent in an email on May 2,2010 to the BCCI president, he said. It was a brief and casual luncheon meeting. The county executives approached Mr Modi,who was very busy in IPL but still managed to squeeze in a meeting,through IMG to discuss the success of the IPL since they were in losses, Abdi said.