The members of the IPL Working Group today met Kolkata Knight Riders co-owners © IANS
New Delhi: The members of the IPL Working Group met Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Jay Mehta and CEO Venky Mysore while former skipper Anil Kumble joined the meeting via video conferencing in his personal capacity.Sourav Ganguly was not present but interestingly, controversial IPL COO Sundar Raman attended the meeting along with Rajeev Shukla, Anurag Thakur and Aniruddh Chaudhary. While Mysore termed it as a “brainstorming session”, Shukla said that some ideas were exchanged. Himachal Pradesh partially waive entertainment tax on Kings XI Punjab IPL matches
About Kumble, who is a key member of Mumbai Indians‘ support staff, Shukla said, “Anil Kumble was present in personal capacity as a player and not as a Mumbai Indians representative. We wanted a few ideas from Anil.”
“As we are talking to all franchises similarly we met KKR today. We can’t divulge the details of the meeting but ideas were exchanged,” Shukla told PTI. S Sreesanth to play lead role in big budget movie
While Thakur said that the working group may complete their work before six weeks.
“As we have been allotted six weeks, we have lined up a lot of meetings over the next few days. Hopefully, we might complete our work before six weeks,” Thakur said before he and IPL chairman left in the same car. S Sreesanth gets backing from Kerala Chief Minister
There was no clarity on how Raman, who is not a part of the committee, attended the meeting.
“Get a life you guys,” Raman smiled and told the three scribes who bumped into him at the hotel. Pravin Tambe, Mohammad Ashraful play T20 cricket in USA