NEW DELHI // Suspended Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi will meet Monday's deadline from the India cricket board to explain his alleged involvement in trying to raise a parallel Twenty20 league in England, according local media. Modi's legal adviser Mehmood Abdi told Press Trust of India he was "on course" to submit the reply to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke raised the issue in an e-mail to BCCI and the cricket board asked Modi to explain.
BCCI secretary S Srinivasan has accused Modi of acting out of turn and tried to challenge not just the authority of the BCCI but also the ECB. Modi has already met a first showcause notice from the BCCI over alleged financial irregularities in the IPL. He responded with a 15,000-page reply packed in six boxes and delivered to the BCCI office last week. "I don't think the (second) reply would be as voluminous as the first," Abdi said. "We will try to satisfy the board." * AP