IPL COO Sundar Raman quits, BCCI accepts resignation

NEW DELHI: The chief operating officer of the Indian Premier League has tendered his resignation and the Indian cricket board accepted it on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over Raman’s presence in the top management of the league especially after the new BCCI president Shashank Manohar took charge last month.

Manohar was one of the few cricket administrators who had said earlier that Raman should have quit right after his name figured in the Mudgal committee report.
Raman met with Manohar in Nagpur on Monday after which he put in his resignation.

Last December, when some parts of the Mudgal Committee report were made public, it was revealed that Raman and the report said he knew the contact of a bookie who had contacted Raman eight times in just one season. The committee also said that Raman’s role should be further investigated. Raman, however, had said that he was unaware of this persons betting activities.

Shashank Manohar took over as BCCI president in October with a pledge to clean up the sport. Since then, the board has appointed Deloitte for Project Transformation and PricewaterhouseCoopers as the independent agency to do due the diligence for the utilisation of funds provided by BCCI to state associations.

The working committee also decided that BCCI’s rules regarding conflict of interest and the amendments to the rules and regulations of the board be taken up for consideration at the Annual General Meeting that will be held on November 9. The board also appointed new internal auditors Gokhale & Sathe, replacing Vijayragahavan & Company. In his first week as president, the board uploaded its constitution on the BCCI website in a bid to bring in more transparency.

BCCI will also display names of the players and umpires receiving monthly gratis from the BCCI and the amounts on its website. It will also put up names of the players who have been paid one-time benefit from the BCCI along with the amount, information on medical benefit scheme for retired cricketers and umpires and information on all payments above Rs 25 lakhs made by BCCI.