Can you tell us how those of you who support the BCCI position on the world cup justify the IPL contract position of the franchises and the BCCI. Now the ICC has given governments unilateral power to act to stop players but the boards do not have such power. What was written in these IPL contracts that allowed the franchises first of all to on an ad hoc basis cancel or suspend the contracts. Second what were the rights granted to the franchises to act unilaterally in the contracts. Third if the basis of the suspensions and cancellations was that the matches will be in India then once the matches moved why did those suspensions and cancellations not become nullified. The issue is that no player can take on the BCCI in the courts. It will financially finish them off since no one can litigate as long as the BCCI and knowing its vindictive nature players who resort to legal measures will not be awarded any further contracts. Even the ICL, which had a lot of money, could not sustain a battle against the BCCI. That does not make BCCIs position correct. It just makes it a monster.
Next is the removal of the PCB team from the Champions League again on an ad hoc basis without consultation of any of the other partners. This was not purely invitational. BCCI got the votes against ICL and got the ICL players banned on the basis that these teams will play in the Champions League. As soon as the votes were in and ICL broken the PCB team was excluded from the Champions League. Let us even consider the case that this was purely invitational even then once invited PCB vacated that period of time on the calendar for the benefit of BCCI. It could have had other activities during that time but some of those opportunities were lost. This should result in the BCCI having to pay compensatory damages but again it is so big and a ghunda that it becomes very hard to counter it.
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