The elections to the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) may be four months away but the Prasun Mukherjee-led administration is feeling the heat from the opposition on the IPL imbroglio. As expected, the CAB top brass played into the hands of the opposition by making a fundamental blooper at today’s all-important Working Committee meetingthat was called to seek a breakthrough in the issue over Eden Garden’s right to host IPL matches.The meeting was called to brief the aggrieved members about the details of the IPL carnival and about how the entire Rs 10-crore booty is to be shared among all the members and the affiliated units. Instead, Mukherjee & Co could neither assure the members of their due share from the IPL project, nor could the administration produce papers at the meeting about the CAB’s deal with the IPL governing body and with Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment. Problems had cropped up after the CAB’s opposition members and a number of affiliated units raised protests claiming that the CAB isn’t going to share enough money and tickets with them.Eden Gardens is slated to host seven home matches of the Kolkata team during the 45-day inaugural IPL Championship.
