Owners have access to players' dugouts
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 17:16 | Updated May 19, 2008 at 20:00
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Mumbai: Putting to rest the Kolkata Knight Riders’ owner and film star Shahrukh Khan’s controversy about sharing the players room and sitting in the dugout, the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 Commissioner and chairman Lalit Modi clarified on Monday that a special ‘red badge’ will provide access for team owners to sit in the players’ dugouts during the matches.
“Let me clarify once and for all that any owner who wants to sit with the players during the match will have to collect a red badge from the concerned team manager which entitles him to sit with his team for a maximum of 15 minutes to share the strategy during a match,” Modi told reporters after unveiling the IPL Trophy on Monday.
“To be very frank with you there was a communication gap between some owners and the organizers which has been settled amicably. Shahrukh Khan, the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders, had not collected the badge like other owners Vijay Mallya (Bangalore Royal Challengers) and Preity Zinta (King’s Eleven Punjab) and the Anti-Corruption Unit of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is very strict about such things,” he clarified.
“I think the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Niranjan Shah was right in objecting to Khan sharing the players dressing room and sitting in the dugout during the match without a valid badge during Kolkata’s clash with Chennai at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday,” he added.
Agreeing that mistakes do happen as this was the first time the BCCI was conducting a domestic tournament of this magnitude, Modi said, they would learn from their mistakes as the tournament progressed.
“People should realize that we (BCCI) are conducting this tournament for the first time and we will learn as the tournament progresses and we would like to follow the ICC Code of Conduct very strictly. Now the issue has been sorted out and the managers of the teams have been instructed to issue four badges,” Modi said.
“The manager of the team can also issue all the four badges to a single person in which case the badges (four) are valid for one hour, after which the person will have to leave the dugout,” he clarified.
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