IPL 2021: Big trouble for MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings again?

MS Dhoni’s CSK were banned for two years by the Lodha Committee in 2015 and were out of the Indian Premier League in the 2016 and 2017.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Ethics Officer Justice (Retd) DK Jain has found former Board president N Srinivasan’s daughter and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) president Rupa Gurunath guilty of ‘Conflict of Interest’ in an order passed on Thursday (June 3). Rupa, the first woman president of a BCCI affiliated unit, is a full-time Director of India Cements Limited (ICL). She has been found guilty of indirect conflict of interest for ICL’s close association with Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited (CSKCL). The 13-page order states that CSKCL is a part of the ICL ‘umbrella’. CSKCL owns the Chennai Super Kings IPL franchise. The TNCA can challenge the order, a copy which is with Zee News English, in a court of law. MS Dhoni’s CSK were banned for two years by the Lodha Committee in 2015 and were out of the Indian Premier League in the 2016 and 2017. CSK, however, came back to win the title in 2018.