Press Trust of India
London, August 10: He is living in exile and facing arrest but that has not stopped sacked IPL commissioner Lalit Modi from preparing the blueprint for a breakaway governing body for cricket to rival the ICC – a plan which he claims is the future ‘world order’.
Modi, who faces allegations of financial impropriety and is currently based here, said the new body would be affiliated with the Olympic movement and oversee Test and T20 competitions, while scrapping the ODI format altogether.
“We’re talking about another cricketing system. There is a blueprint out there, it’s got my rubber stamp on it,” Modi told the ‘Australian Broadcasting Corporation’.
“I have been involved in it. I say it for the first time, I’ve been involved in putting that blueprint together. We could take on the existing establishment, no problem. It requires a few billion dollars, I don’t think it would be a problem to get that … into action. The plan that I have put together is a very detailed one. It’s taken years in the making,” he added.
Modi said his blueprint comprises a calendar of events to rival the ICC’s schedule in Tests and T20 games. “The plan conceives only of Test cricket and T20; it doesn’t take into account one-day games at all. I think that is completely redundant in today’s age. I think it should just be T20 and Test matches that should be played,” he asserted.
