Narayanaswami Srinivasan faces court challenge to BCCI post
Nation's supreme court to hear case put by Bihar state that the game's most powerful man should not be allowed to stand for re-election
Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the most powerful man in cricket, faces a last-ditch challenge to his reinstatement this weekend as head of India's board, days after his son-in-law was charged in a corruption scandal.
The combative president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should have been a certainty at Sunday's annual meeting in Chennai, facing no challenge to his re-election for a third year in office.
But he now has a new hurdle tomorrow after the Supreme Court agreed to consider a request for an injunction to prevent him from standing for election, brought by a cricket association in Bihar state.
India, cricket's superpower, generates 70 per cent of the international game's revenue due to its vast television audiences, allowing the BCCI to have its way in all significant decisions on the game's future.
Other international boards dread falling out with the BCCI, aware that the sale of television rights for India series is vital to their survival.
The hearing is yet another headache for Srinivasan, 68, who had to nominally step aside from the BCCI in June - curtailing his powers - when his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was named as a suspect in a corruption inquiry.
