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Jadeja issue: BCCI refutes charges

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THRISSUR JUNE 5. The BCCI Secretary General S.K. Nair has refuted the allegations that the BCCI was responsible for not permitting cricketer Ajay Jadeja to make a comeback.

Replying to questions from the reporters here on Wednesday, Mr. Nair said: "First of all, Mr Jadeja has only said that `someone' was preventing him from getting back to cricket, and that `someone' need not be the BCCI. In BCCI we have no revengeful attitude towards Mr. Jadeja. So far we have not even contemplated any administrative action against Mr. Jadeja. Now it is only a legal issue and we will abide by the legal decisions.''

Asked whether the BCCI will permit Jadeja to return to cricket in view of the latest Supreme Court order, Mr. Nair said, "We are yet to get the legal advice on the Supreme Court order, and we will go by that advice.'' His response was the same to the question whether the BCCI would file a review petition against the SC order.

Recalling that it was the CBI which had filed a case against Jadeja and not the BCCI, Mr. Nair said, "Even those who were screaming for his blood then seem to have taken an about turn now and are attacking the BCCI as if we were responsible for the whole issue.''

Mr. Nair also strongly refuted the allegations of the cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu that Indian cricketers were not being paid properly in spite of the BCCI making huge amounts from the game.

``Mr. Sidhu has reportedly said that the BCCI was earning Rs. 70 crores annually. But he has not produced any supporting document to such statements. And we don't want to respond to such casual statements. The accounts of the BCCI are open documents which can be examined by anybody. If Mr. Sidhu is able to bring in any document to prove that the BCCI is making a profit of at least Rs 7 crores, leave alone Rs. 70 crores, then we are ready to disprove those documents.''

On Sidhu's charges that Indian cricketers are less paid than their western counterparts, he said, "On the contrary the overall earnings of the Indian cricketers including the payments they get from advertisements are higher than the players of other countries. In other countries the relationship between the players and the cricket control boards is that of an employer-employee relationship. There the players cannot sign any other contract without the permission of the respective cricket control boards. The reason for the tussle between the Indian Cricket Control Board and the international association was that the Indian cricketers were being permitted to enter into personal contracts.''

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