SRK thanks MCA
Mumbai: Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan on Monday thanked the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) for showing “graciousness” in lifting the five-year ban imposed on him from entering the Wankhede Stadium. “My gentle father-in-law made me realise how lil it matters who was rite or who was wrong. Wot matters is grace. Thnx MCA for ur graciousness,” Shah Rukh said in a tweet. The Bollywood superstar was banned from entering MCA premises, including the Wankhede Stadium, for engaging in a scuffle with the officials of the cricketing body and the security staff on May 16, 2012 following KKR’s victory over Mumbai Indians.
Give sealed envelope to lodha Panel: Verma to SC
New Delhi: The secretary of the unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) Aditya Verma on Monday filed an application with a plea to Supreme Court to hand over the 1st Report and the full text of the 3rd Report of Justice Mudgal Committee to the Justice lodha Committee. In the sealed cover, the Justice Mudgal Committee referred to the allegations against 13 persons. But the Committee made it clear that they were only allegations and were not established and, therefore, the report was being submitted in sealed cover so as not to sully the reputation of any innocent person.
Roebuck inquest set to be reopened: report
Sydney: An inquest into the apparent suicide of renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in South Africa four years ago is set to be reopened, his former employer reported on Monday. South African police said he leapt out of a sixth floor window after two officers arrived to arrest him over a claim of sexual assault by a Zimbabwean man. Australia’s Fairfax Media said his family had since dealt with obstructionism from authorities with a closed hearing in Cape Town into the circumstances of the death in 2013 about which neither they nor the continent’s largest law firm were notified.