Mahendra Singh Dhoni caught in crossfire between N Srinivasan & Lalit Modi: Arun Pandey

NEW DELHI: In a sting operation run by a news channel, Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni’s friend Arun Pandey, who owns sports marketing firm Rhiti Sports, said the Indian cricket team captain was caught in a crossfire between N Srinivasan and former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. “The fight is between Srinivasan and Modi. He [Dhoni] is stuck in between their fight,” Pandey is shown as saying.

Pandey, whose company manages the cricketing and marketing deals of Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh, also says those who did the fixing are sitting in parliament, the players who have gone to jail are small fry, referring to the spot-fixing and betting scandal that rocked the last edition of IPL in 2013.

An email questionnaire sent to Pandey did not elicit any response. He is also shown as saying that Srinivasan’s son-in-law (Gurunath) Meiyappan is the king of CSK. “No one can stop him in CSK,” he is shown as saying.