BCCI set to reprimand Modi for favouring Aussies

Mumbai: BCCI vice-president and Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) president Lalit Modi is all set to be reprimanded by the BCCI, after a certain section in the board has objected to Modi and the RCA rolling out extra-ordinary practice facilities to the visiting Australians.

A CNN-IBN report claimed BCCI president Sharad Pawar has already notified Modi that he might be asked to explain his decision to go out of the way and accomodate the Australians, who are scheduled to take on India in a four-Test series starting October 9.

The website also reported that Modi could be served a reprimand in the board's AGM scheduled for September 27 and 28.

It was earlier reported that the Rajasthan Cricket Association, where the Australians are currently spending time in a bid to get acclimatised to Indian conditions, were given as many as ten different kinds of practice pitches - so they could get used to the slow, low and fast crumbling Indian pitches. BCCI chief administrative officer Prof. Ratnakar Shetty had said, "We won't get this kind of facilities if India went abroad, we would have got the bare minimum. RCA is being a little too obliging to the Australian team, they have done more than what a host country will do."

But Modi had counter-arged that question saying, "Why look at it in the way that we are giving them facilities? Why not look at it the other way round? I am getting an opportunity for my Rajasthan boys to be practising with one of the best teams in the world, free of cost."