New Delhi, June 3:
Sports Authority of India (SAI) Director General, Jiji Thomson today advocated the need to bring BCCI under the purview of the RTI act and said the spirit of the game has suffered due to the spot-fixing scandal in IPL 6.
“We don’t want match-fixing to take place in cricket. Cricket has such a good set-up and why to spoil the entire beauty of the game with such wrongdoings. The spirit of the game has suffered,” Thomson said.
“I am of the view that BCCI should come under the RTI act,” he added.
Indian cricket was rocked by the spot-fixing scandal, leading to the arrest of three cricketers including India international S Sreesanth and Chennai Super Kings’s Team principal Gurunath Meiyappan, who is also the son-in-law of BCCI President N Srinivasan.
It also led to Srinivasan agreeing to “step aside” as BCCI President under a compromise formula that brought back former chief Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member “interim arrangement” to run the Board. (PTI)
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