A Sourav beamer that’s headed for brother Snehasish!

Among a flurry of cricketing issues that he raised at the AGM,Sourav questioned why no action has been taken yet on the issue of lavish overspending. The CAB had overshot by the Rs 3.5 crore budget by Rs 4.5 crore in hosting the seven home matches of Knight Riders during the IPL Twenty20 carnival’s inaugural edition in 2008 summer.

In the following months,the CAB kicked up a fuss when the BCCI refused to reimburse the overspent amount. Later that year,it was learnt that the then CAB assistant-secretary Snehasish had tactlessly refused to accept the Rs 3.5 crore reimbursement cheque.

Snehasish,in the thick of the things then over organising the IPL,had argued that Eden is a big stadium and Rs 3.5 crore is far short of the actual amount spent by the CAB. Following Snehasish’s refusal to accept the promised Rs 3.5 crore sum,the BCCI had kept the CAB waiting for a mighty long time,making the most of the CAB official’s initial refusal to accept Rs 3.5 crore.

Much later,when Jagmohan Dalmiya returned to the helm of affairs at the CAB,the BCCI finally released the Rs 3.5 crore. In between,a section of the CAB had been extremely critical of Snehasish’s stance that eventually delayed the reimbursement.

Snehasish had repeatedly maintained back then that he had no option but to refuse the Rs 3.5 crore cheque in the backdrop of the much higher actual expenditure incurred by the CAB,which ran into about Rs 8 crore.

Over the last couple of months,the CAB constituted two separate committees that carried out investigations over what led to the excess expenditure. Eventually,a special panel comprising noted legal hawk Usha Nath Banerjee concluded in detailed report that the previous CAB administration had incurred an expense of Rs 2,06,57,500 (Rs 2.0657 crore) during IPL-1 that could easily have been avoided and qualifies as unnecessary expenditure. The Dalmiya administration is sitting over the report and is yet to intimate the members of the previous dispensation about the latest findings made by the special panel looking into the matter.

And if the issue is pursued by Dalmiya & Co — which Sourav called for at today’s AGM — then the scanner will be back again on Snehasish.

Meanwhile,Howrah DSA’s Abhijit Dutta suffered a crushing loss in his bid for the CAB vice-president’s post,registering a mere 24 votes.