IPL spot-fixing row: Top BCCI officials Shirke, Jagdale quit

u00a0In a severe blow to BCCI President N Srinivasan two senior Board officials today quit piling more pressure on him to step down on a day he convened a Working Committee meeting and information spilled out that the ICC warned his soninlaw to keep away from bookies at the start of IPL BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale himself a former cricketer and Treasurer Ajay Shirke sent their resignations to Srinivasan saying they were deeply hurt by recent developments in cricket Sanjay Jagdale Significantly Jagdale who is also a member of the threemember inquiry commission to go into allegations against CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan and CSK franchise owner India Cements run by Srinivasan also opted out of the inquiry committee quotI have expressed my inability to join the probequot Jagdale said when asked whether he would continue in the panel which has two retired Judges on it It was a day of dramatic developments when Jagdale Shirke and Joint Secretary Anurag Thakur called Srinivasan and asked him to announce convening of an immediate meeting of the Working Committee by evening failing which they threatened to quit But it was another matter that even as Srinivasan initiated the process of calling such a meeting on probably June 8 the two officebearers announced their decision to quit in what is seen as a pressure tactics to ensure the Board Chief39s ouster However both of them declined to ask Srinivasan to quit saying it was his individual decisionu00a0 quotYes that39s true I have resigned from the post of honorary secretary of BCCIquot Jagdale said quotI don39t want to comment further but I am deeply hurt by the recent developments in Indian cricket I thought it39s better to get out so that some new faces come in and deal with it in a better wayquot he added He however refused to divulge the details of the resignation letter sent to Srinivasan quotI can39t comment about the resignation letter I have written to the President It39s proper to inform the President and I have done thatquot Jagdale said he would no longer be part of the threeman inquiry commission set up by the BCCI to go into allegations against Srinivasan39s soninlow and CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan who was arrested on charges of betting in IPL and Rajasthan Royals franchise quotI have already expressed my inability to be part of the commissionquot Jagdale said Ajay Shirke quotI have spelt out my reasons for resignation I don39t want to comment any further I have already spoken to the media at lengthquot Srirke said Shirke said he was not cajoled by Srinivasan not to quit Buckling under relentless pressure on him to quit Srinivasan today convened an emergency meeting of the Board39s allpowerful working committee on June 8 to discuss the current crisis arising out of betting and spotfixing in IPL The beleaguered President39s decision came after three important members called him up to convene such a meeting and asked him to announce it by the evening in what is seen as the first step towards possibly ousting him