Lalit Modi

1.2 Family

Lalit Kumar Modi, (born 29 November 1965, Delhi,

India) is the rst commissioner of crickets Indian Premier League (IPL).[1] After launching and running IPL
for 3 years he was found guilty of committing acts of misconduct and indiscipline resulting in his removal and subsequent lifetime ban by the BCCI. He denies all wrongdoing and blames the current BCCI administration for creating sham blue ribbon committees to pass judgements
on him.[2][3][4]

Lalit Modi is married to Minal, whom he met while studying in the USA.ssg The couple have two children and Minal also has a daughter from a previous relationship.

1.3 Family security threat

In March 2009 the Mumbai police arrested and interrogated Rashid Malabari, who is reportedly the hitman of
underworld don Chota Shakeel.[16] During the interrogation, Malabari revealed that the there was a plan to assassinate Lalit Modi, his wife Minal and son Ruchir.[17]

Best known for his stint as the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and the Chairman of
the Champions League, between 2008 and 2010, he has
also occupied the roles of Vice President of the Board
of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), between 2005
and September 2010, and Vice President of the Punjab
Cricket Association.[5][6]

This was later cross-referenced by a government intelligence agency, who picked up a phone conversation between Chota Shakeel and his boss Dawood Ibrahim inLalit Modi is also the President and Managing Director of structing him to hire four assassins to carry out the assasModi Enterprises and the Executive Director of Godfrey sination of Modi and his family in either South Africa or
Phillips India. On 6 May 2014 Lalit Modi was elected in India.[18][19]
as President of Rajasthan Cricket Association.[7][8] He
was impeached from this position on March 9, 2015 in
a vote of condence in which 17 out of 18 votes were
2 Business career
cast against him.[9]
Modi is the President and Managing Director of Modi
Enterprises, an industrial conglomerate created and run
by
his family.[20] Modi has been the Executive Direc1 Early life
tor of Godfrey Phillips India since 1992, one of Indias
largest tobacco companies.[20][21] The company is jointly
Lalit Kumar Modi was born into a wealthy and success- promoted by the Modi Enterprises and Philip Morris Inful business family. His father Krishan Kumar Modi is ternational.[22]
Chairman of Modi Enterprises, a USD $5 billion business
empire, which was founded by his grandfather, Gujar Mal
2.1 Modi Entertainment Networks
Modi, who also founded the town of Modinagar.[10][11]

1.1

Modi started a 10-year joint venture with Walt Disney

Pictures in 1993, called Modi Entertainment Networks
(MEN), to broadcast some of Disneys content in India,
including Fashion TV.[23][24][25]

Education

Lalit Modi joined Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, in

1971.[12] He studied at Duke University in North Car- In 1994, he became the pan-India distributor of ESPN
on a ten-year contract worth $975 million. His job was
olina, between 1983 and 1986.[13]
to collect money from the cable companies in India in
On March 1, 1985, while a sophomore, Modi was ar- exchange for them broadcasting ESPN.[26]
rested on charges of conspiracy to trac cocaine, assault
and second-degree kidnapping. On April 2, 1985, Modi The deal, gave ESS exclusive global commercial rights for
and another student were indicted.[14] Modi pleaded all T20 Champions League seasons until 2017, making it
cricket tournament by value on a per game
guilty to the crime when the case was heard in the the highest
[27]
basis.
Durham County court, North Carolina and later entered
a plea bargain, which resulted in a suspended two-year Of the deal, ESS Managing Director, Manu Sawhney
said: This deal will cement our relationship with BCCI,
prison sentence.[15]
1

3 CRICKET ADMINISTRATION

Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa and we are

committed to setting new benchmarks in broadcast and
distribution. Lalit Modi, who was IPL chairman and
commissioner at the time, said: We believe this is the
best commercial deal for Champions League.[28]
In 2008 ESPN, paid almost $1 billion for the global rights
to the Twenty20 Champions League, in a ten-year deal.
Lalit Modi called it: The best commercial deal for the
inaugural Champions League Twenty20 season and for
cricket fans across the world. [29]
On 24 January 2008 The Indian Premier League announced the new owners of eight franchises. The base
price of the auction was set at $400 million, but the nal
auction total reached $723.59 million. Mumbai was the
most expensive team, costing $111.9 million.[30]
In October 2009, Nimbus Communications paid $431
million for the rights to Indias home international games
for four years, which commenced in April 2010. Although the deal didnt include internet or radio rights,
Lalit Modi indicated the deal was: The highest price
ever that will be paid per match by a broadcaster to any
national board.[31]
Pune and Kochi were unveiled on 21 March 2010 as the
two new franchises for the fourth edition of the Indian
Premier League. Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million and the Kochi franchise was bought by Rendezvous Sports World Limited
for $333.3 million. The auction fetched a total $723.59
million.

2.2

Other interests

In 2002, he launched an online lottery business in Kerala

called Sixo.[32] He later went into the real estate business in Rajasthan, with a company called Amer Heritage
City Construction Pvt Ltd, where his wife, Minal, is a
director.[6][33]

allegedly submitted his name to the RCA as Lalit Kumar,

because he did not want to be cut-o like he was with
the HPCA.[35]
On May 6, 2014, Lalit Modi was again elected as the
President of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), the
election that took place in December 2013 was postponed for results on about 6 occasions by the Supreme
Court before nally announcing him the winner. Within
minutes of announcing him as the winner, BCCI fearing Lalit Modi banned the entire association (RCA) and
elected an adhoc body to carry administrative function
of RCA. Lalit Modi was vocal against BCCI unjust, discriminatory and prejudiced move to ban the entire organization and immediately took the legal route to ght
BCCIs declaration.[36]
On March 9, 2015, Lalit Modi was removed from his position of President of Rajasthan Cricket Association. He
was impeached through a no-condence motion in which
17 out of 18 members cast their vote against him. There
was some controversy regarding the motion as only 18 out
of 33 members were present. Modis supporters cried
foul play and alleged that they were prevented from attending the general meeting by the rival group. Rajasthan
State Sports Council rejected the claim and said that those
who arrived late at the RCA Academy in Jaipur for the
voting were not allowed to participate. Incidents of stone
pelting outside the RCA Academy were also reported.
Amin Pathan succeeded Modi as the new chief of Rajasthan Cricket Academy.[37]

3.3 Board of Control for Cricket in India

In 2004, Lalit Modi ran for President of Rajasthan
Cricket Association and won, which entitled him to a seat
on the BCCI.

In 2005, Modi gured in a power struggle that resulted in

In July 2014, he was appointed as a member of the advi- Sharad Pawar, an inuential politician and national cabinet minister, ousting former Indian cricket supremo and
sory board of Aman Resorts.[34]
International Cricket Council chief, Jagmohan Dalmiya,
in the BCCI elections. Modi was then appointed VicePresident of the BCCI.[38]

Cricket administration

Lalit Modi was heavily involved in the commercial side

of the BCCI and it is reported he was responsible for
3.1 Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association increasing the BCCIs revenues sevenfold between 2005
and 2008, with the BCCI then reporting annual revenues
Lalit Modi joined the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Associaof over $1 billion.[39]
tion in 1999. At that time, the Association had no cricket
stadium and Modi promised to build one that would be
used during the Indian summer.

3.4 Punjab Cricket Association

3.2

Rajasthan Cricket Association

In 2005, Lalit Modi joined the Rajasthan Cricket Association. He became a member of the Nagore district. He

Lalit Modi is currently the Vice President of the Punjab

Cricket Association under the patronage of former BCCI
President, I.S. Bindra.[40]

3.6

3.5

Mihir Bose interview

Indian Premier League

Modi was involved in capacity as an individual for breaking foreign exchange laws. The transaction in suspicion
In 2008, Lalit Modi was instrumental in launching the doesn't tie back to Modi said an ED ocial on condition
IPL, a league based around Twenty20 cricket, where each of anonymity.[54]
team is limited to batting for a maximum of 20 overs.[41] Modi has been actively trying to encourage the cricketing
he also engineered the Indian Premier Leagues move to powers to take the threat of match xing seriously ever
South Africa in 2009 after the dates of the tournament since he parted ways with the BCCI. In March 2014, citclashed with the Indian general election and the Union ing the IPL 2013 betting and spot-xing scandal as an exMinister of Home Aairs, P. Chidambaram, could not ample, Modi referred to match-xing as a potential 'death
commit to the security of the tournament.[41][42]
penalty for the sport.[55]
The IPL has since grown into one of the worlds biggest
sports, worth over $4 billion.[43] The commercial success of the Indian Premier League and Modis control
of the league has led to him being compared to Don
King and Bernie Ecclestone.[43] In March 2014, Modi alleged that the International Cricket Council (ICC) had evidence regarding the existence of spot and match-xing in
the Champions League T20 cricket tournament and that
world crickets governing body was deliberately not making it public.[44]

3.5.1

IPL controversy

In 2010, Modi oversaw the bidding process and creation

of two new teams in the Indian Premier League. Pune
and Kochi were declared the new franchises. A Twitter
entry by Modi declaring the stakeholders of the Kochi
IPL Team allegedly breaching condentiality agreements
led to the resignation of the then Indian Minister of State
for External Aairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor.[45][46]
Modi was then suspended as chairman and Commissioner
of the IPL in April 2010.[47] A suspension notice and
a 34-page letter stating 22 charges of impropriety were
served via email to Modi. Modi publicly protested his
innocence immediately after the 2010 Indian Premier
League Final had been played.[43]

3.6 Mihir Bose interview

On 25 November 2010, an exclusive interview between
Mihir Bose and Modi was published. This was his rst
interview since being suspended as commissioner of the
IPL and in it he rejected a number of allegations levelled
against him during his career. Global news networks,
newspapers and social media sources reported on the interview, including The Times of India, AFP and The Economic Times.[56]
When questioned about the $80 million that he allegedly
cost the BCCI, Modi claimed that the way I did the deals
I made the BCCI billions of dollars not cost them eighty
million dollars.[57] He indicated that his security agencies advised him not to return to India until the threat level
reduced. Security protection has remained high since
Modi moved the IPL to South Africa in 2009.[58]

3.7 Other interviews

Lalit Modi has since appeared in several media appearances and claried the leveled allegations against him by
BCCI. In an interview with BBC Hardtalk in Oct 2013,
he talks about the hardships he faced realizing the IPL
dream, rebutting BCCI allegations with an open criticism
In March 2012 New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns suc- of BCCI and how it is damaging world cricket.[59]
cessfully sued Modi for making false statements in the
media about Mr Cairns. This is after Modi posted on In another interview with Society magazine in Mar, 2014
Twitter in 2010 that Cairns had been involved in match- he was vocal about his contempt for N. Srinivasan and
xing during 2008, which was proven to be lies made up how Srinivasans company India cements was virtually
running the BCCI administration. Lalit Modis tirade
by Modi. Cairns won costs and damages.[48]
against N. Srinivasan is no secret which is conspicuous
On Sept 6, 2013, BCCIs three-member committee con- from his Twitter, Facebook proles and his personal websisting of Jyotiraditya Scindia and Arun Jaitley accused site. Article highlights Lalit Modis tireless and relentModi of several charges of irregularities, which Modi less pursuit against his opponents who in his view are
denies.[49][50][51]
bent upon destruction of IPL and Indian cricket. Article
On September 25, BCCI imposed a life ban on him after quotes his CNBC interview which gives so much visibila Special General Meeting held at Chennai.[52] Lalit Modi ity about the man itself and his innate ability to go after
seems to be unfazed by the ban and argued that the ban someone or something that he deeply believes in. Lalit
doesn't mean much as the committee that banned him was Modi said I am a bad enemy to make, because I am a
a vested interest committee.[53]
winner. You don't want to take such exterme [sic] steps
In regard to nancial irregularities charge, the Enforce- with me, rather you want[60]to negotiate with me, because
ment Directorate (ED, Indias intelligence agency respon- you need to walk away.
sible for enforcing nancial laws) has said that they have In a candid interview with Sports Illustrated in March,
no strong evidence as of May, 2014 that proves that Lalit 2014 he reiterated the need to save Indian cricket from the

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On 30 December 2008, SportzPower ranked Lalit

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