N Srinivasan-led BCCI has received lot of criticism in the past couple of months

A quick run through the 36-page reply by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the 171-page report of the Supreme Court appointed Justice Mudgal Committee gives a clear insight into the mindset of cricket administrators and their brazen defiance to come clean on serious issues haunting the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The Mudgal Committee, which made its report public last month, left cricket enthusiasts in little doubt about the role and activities of Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of board president Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, in running the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) franchise. Not that we needed Mudgal to tell us that the young man was the hands-on owner and that his pastime was to bet and pass inside information (or was it trading) to all and sundry.