Sacked IPL commissioner preparing blueprint of breakaway cricket body to rival ICC

Indian business man and former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who is living in exile and facing arrest, reportedly, is preparing the blueprint for a breakaway governing body for cricket to rival the ICC. As per Modi, the plan is the future "world order".

Modi, who is facing allegations of financial impropriety, said that the new body would be affiliated with the Olympic movement and oversee Test and T20 competitions, while scrapping the ODI format altogether, as published in an Economic Times report.

While talking to the ‘Australian Broadcasting Corporation,’ Lalit Modi said, "We're talking about another cricketing system. There is a blueprint out there, it's got my rubber stamp on it."

"I have been involved in it. I say it for the first time, I've been involved in putting that (blue) print together. We could take on the existing establishment, no problem. It requires a few billion dollars, I don't think it would be a problem to get that ... into action," he said.

Modi further added, "The plan that I have put together is a very detailed plan, it's not a plan that's come off the cuff, it's been taking years and years and years in the making."

Modi, now an outsider for the Indian cricket after he was sacked in 2010 as commissioner of the very league he conceptualized, has an arrest warrant against him based on the Enforcement Directorate's allegations.

Though, Modi has strongly denied all the charges against him. The infamous administrator has also said that his plan would only fail if the ICC, currently headed by his nemesis and former BCCI president N Srinivasan, carries out reforms.

"I hope that print [the blueprint] doesn't take off. But if the people can't continue, then that print will take off and that blueprint will become the world order tomorrow. I guarantee you that, sitting here today," he said.

Modi said the ICC should look to get the International Olympic Committee's affiliation.

"I have been proposing that. The ICC will never agree to that; never means never. It is a plan that one day, if I ever implement it, will re-write history in sport. IPL has re-written history in sport in the way it's marketed. I think this will re-write history once again,” he concluded.