Srinivasan slams Manohar over ’email trail’

Chennai: Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar’s rivalry with N Srinivasan is well-documented with the former calling the TNCA supremo the ‘root of all the scandal in BCCI’ not too long ago.

On Saturday, it was the turn of Srinivasan to hit back at his former colleague following reports that Manohar was exchanging emails with the tainted former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi between 2013-14, when the spot-fixing scandal was at its peak. During a chat with TOI, Srinivasan said: “I am shocked. Never expected Shashank to collude with Lalit Modi in such a fashion.”

Manohar and Srinivasan ran the show in the BCCI from 2008-11, when the Vidarbha man was the president and the Tamil Nadu strongman the secretary. The two fell out after the spot-fixing scandal broke in 2013 and since then, things have only gone from bad to worse. “During the last two years, Shashank has been very critical of BCCI and particularly of me. Now it seems the criticisms were motivated,” Srinivasan said.

Manohar, on Friday , had said that he has no knowledge of computers and that he doesn’t operate the email account,varshamanohar@yahoo.com, from where the mails to Modi were sent. But there are mails that suggest Manohar was using the email account since the time he was the BCCI president.

In October 2009, when Srinivasan, Manohar and Modi were all in the saddle, there is a chain of mails where they are having difference of opinion over tours and fixtures committee meeting which culminates in Srinivasan writing to Manohar at his email id: “Dear Shashank, I am getting tired of Lalit and his mails…”

On Jan 28, 2011, the then ICC president Haroon Lorgat wrote to Manohar at the same id: “It is with great regret that I have to decline your request to reverse our earlier decision to shift the India vs England match from Kolkata on February 27, 2011…”

Source: PTI

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