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Updated: 05 Feb 2022 12:53 pm

Everybody made money from the IPL. With each passing season, it grew in audience and wealth.While Srinivasan owned a team through India Cements, a complaint made to the BCCI in March 2015 alleges that Sharad Pawar’s family also benefited from the T20 league. When Lalit Modi pitched the idea of IPL, Pawar lapped it up and backed him. When it was finally launched, World Sports Group (India) Pvt Ltd and Singapore-based Multi Screen Media Satellite (Singapore) Pvt Ltd (MSMS) won the bid for media rights in Asia from 2008 to 2012 for USD 275.5 million.

The complaint claims that Pawar’s son-in-law, Sadanand Sule, held nearly 20 per cent stake in the company at the time and Sony television channel held controlling interest through its parent Sony Corporation. The next year, Sule sold his stake in the company for a hefty sum and Lalit Modi also cancelled the broadcast agreement with MSMS. Gurunath Meiyappan was not the only son-in-law connected to cricket through a powerful pa-in-law cum cricket administrator.

The same complaint also alleges that former BCCI president I.S. Bindra also did not disclose a conflict of interest. Bindra’s son Amar was employed in Nimbus Communication, which till last year held the media rights for the IPL. In 2007, while Pawar was president, he constituted a committee headed by Bindra that negotiated the deal with Nimbus to award them concessions worth hundreds of crores. Pawar continues as president of the Mumbai Cricket Association and has well-wishers amongst BCCI office bearers. It is rumoured that he facilitated current BCCI secretary and BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s entry into the BCCI. Cricket levels their differences in political ideology.