BCCI Working Committee meet to discuss Mudgal report

The fate of Sundar Raman, the COO of IPL, may also be decided during the WC meeting.

The all-powerful Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) Working Committee will meet on Tuesday in Chennai to discuss the fall-out of the Mudgal Panel report. The probe panel has cleared N Srinivasan, the BCCI president-in-exile as well as the current ICC Chairman, of any wrongdoings during the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The report has also observed that Srinivasan's son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan, was not just an 'cricket enthusiast', but was an integral part of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) franchise. The report also convicted IPL's Chief Operating Officer (COO), Sundar Raman, of having been in touch with bookies during the IPL. Meiyappan and Raj Kundra, the co-owner of Rajasthan Royals (RR), were also found to be actively involved in betting during the course of the tournament.

The Working Committee (WC) meeting has been called to discuss the possible new date for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the BCCI. The AGM was previously scheduled to be held on November 20th but is now likely to be moved to the third week of December. The Mudgal Panel report is also likely to come under discussion during the course of the meeting.

N Srinivasan is expected to be present in Tuesday's meeting in his capacity as the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA). "There is not much that's going to happen tomorrow at the WC meeting. Most of the members who will be attending the meeting are Srinivasan loyalists. Also with Mudgal committee finding that he was not involved in fixing, the decks should be cleared for him contesting for the presidential post," a senior BCCI official and working committee member told PTI on Monday.

However the official announcement is expected to come only after the next Supreme Court hearing, scheduled to be held on November 24th. "The BCCI would like to keep its end guarded. Any decision will be taken after the SC verdict. However there is hardly any opposition. I guess there shouldn't be much opposition from the likes of Shashank Manohar, who, at the maximum controls four votes. There shouldn't be any problems for him to retain his presidential post," the official added.