New Delhi: For a league that revels in flashing its millions in public &mdash right from the player auctions to the spiralling costs involved
in the last-minute switch to South Africa &mdash the IPL turned down the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) offer to provide anti-corruption cover for the tournament.
The IPL decided against hiring the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Securities Unit (ACSU), which would have cost them a fee of $1.2m (approx Rs 6 crore) &mdash a sum that pales in comparison to some of the other figures that have been thrown about. The IPL, for example, renegotiated their television deal with Sony for a whopping $1.6 billion (approx Rs 8000 crore) over nine years just before the start of the second season Cricket South Africa was reportedly paid $1.1m (approx Rs 5.5 crore) as a flat fee for hosting the event the IPL gave $1 million (Rs 5 crore) as a charity scholarship to schools in South Africa while Mahendra Singh Dhoni alone makes more from the Chennai Super Kings per season than ICC’s anti-corruption services quote.
The matter was taken up in the BCCI Working Committee meeting on Wednesday, with a number of members demanding an explanation why the ICC offer had not been accepted.