The moment it emerged on Sunday evening that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would be including Ravi Shastri in the list of the three-member panel to be submitted to the Supreme Court to probe the IPL-6 spot-fixing scandal, eyebrows were raised.


BCCI interim president Shivlal Yadav at the Cricket Centre on Sunday. Pic/Bipin Kokate

It wasn't difficult to figure out that Shastri's inclusion would lead to yet another debate about conflict of interest — after all he is on the pay-rolls of the Board.

And even before the proposal has been submitted to the apex court, it has emerged that another member of the probe panel: Justice JN Patel is a brother-in-law of BCCI's stand-in president Shivlal Yadav. Justice Patel confirmed to CNN-IBN that he and Yadav are 'brothers-in-law'.