Is IPL auction finalized? Former BCCI President made a shocking revelation

• Lalit Modi made serious allegations against Srinivasan
  
• Andrew Flintoff was forced to be included in Chennai Super Kings.
  
• Lalit Modi was thrown out of IPL in 2010
  

In October 2010, the Chennai Central Crime Branch in Tamil Nadu seized around Rs. A complaint was filed alleging embezzlement of Rs 750 crore. There was a disturbance in the accounts of the world's largest cricket board i.e. BCCI, the then secretary of BCCI, who complained to the crime branch, N. Srinivasan and the person against whom the complaint was made was IPL organizer Lalit Modi. This complaint was the biggest reason behind Lalit Modi leaving BCCI and then fleeing from India.

Players from some countries did not play in the first season of IPL, even if they played, they were nominal. However, the success of the first season also opened the doors for English players to be auctioned in the second season. Interestingly, the 2009 IPL auction was held in seaside Goa, where you go to have fun with your friends, while the owners of IPL teams came to buy the players.

Big bid on Pietersen

In the auction of the second season of IPL, the highest bid was placed on the players of England. Andrew Flintoff was sold to Chennai Super Kings and Kevin Pietersen was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs. Bought for Rs 9.5 crore. Although both the players could not do anything special in IPL, but if we talk about earnings, both of them earned a lot in a single season. Andrew Flitoff could only play 3 matches and then returned home due to injury. In these 3 matches, Flintoff scored only 62 runs and took two wickets.

Lalit Modi gave a big statement

Due to these three matches of Flintoff, IPL had to face a lot of notoriety because Lalit Modi, who was thrown out of IPL in 2010, had made such a revelation which created an uproar. In September 2010, Lalit Modi gave an interview to a TV channel, in which he claimed irregularities in IPL and BCCI and also gave clarification on the allegations against him.

Lalit Modi also leaked an email in support of his claim. This email is from Lalit Modi and N. There was a conversation between Srinivasan, which was related to the auction of Andrew Flintoff. Lalit Modi wrote, 'How difficult it was to convince Rajasthan not to release Sohail Tanvir and not to try for Flintoff in the auction. Shane Warne was not ready for this, but finally he was somehow persuaded. An email reply came from Srinivasan, in which he simply wrote, “Thank you very much.”

Chennai included Flintoff in the team

If understood in simple language, Lalit Modi said that N. Srinivasan's Chennai Super Kings had told him even before the auction that they wanted to include Andrew Flintoff in the team at any cost, but there were also reports that Rajasthan Royals also wanted to buy him. In such a situation, Lalit Modi convinced Rajasthan to retain foreign player Sohail Tanveer. As soon as this happened, Rajasthan did not have money left to match Chennai's bid and ultimately Flintoff was bought by Chennai.

Srinivasan refutes Lalit Modi's allegation

Later, when many cases were filed against Lalit Modi and he had to leave India, he put forward these things in his defence. Later Lalit Modi kept saying that he should not have done this, as President he should not have come under any pressure. Srinivasan was the BCCI secretary at the time of the 2009 auction, when Lalit Modi revealed that he had become the BCCI president. In response to the allegations, he simply said that I did not hear what Lalit Modi was saying but I hope he is lying.

BCCI fined

The 2009 IPL was held not in India but in South Africa. Meanwhile, Lalit Modi was also accused of irregularities in BCCI's account. ED also imposed a heavy fine on BCCI because it was alleged that during the 2009 IPL, around Rs 250 crore was taken out of the country by bypassing FEMA rules. When this matter came to light, everyone from BCCI to Lalit Modi, N. ED had taken action against Srinivasan and other officials.