IPL spot-fixing case: Working Group meets Pepsi, report before August 29

New Delhi: The four-member Working Group formed to study the Justice Lodha panel's verdict relating to the IPL 2013 corruption scandal, on Monday completed its meeting with all stakeholders, including title sponsors Pepsi, with BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur saying the report could be submitted before the August 29 deadline.

"We have completed our meeting with stakeholders and have taken into account their suggestions. I must tell you that all stakeholders are on the same page regarding what needs to be done. The deadline is August 29 but we are planning to submit our report before that," Thakur told media persons here.

"Now that we have met all stakeholders, the members of the Working Group will meet again to discuss and prepare the report," Thakur said.

However, he did not divulge anything about the solution they are seeking to make it an eight-team format. "You people have waited for one and half year, just wait for a few weeks more," said Thakur.

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In a separate development, the members of the Rajasthan Cricket Association's Amin Pathan faction submitted a signed representation of 23 out of 33 districts of the state, urging the BCCI to conduct their inter-district tournament in order to help in selection of U-14 and U-16 tournaments.

"We met the secretary of the BCCI to submit our representations as we are unable to select the state U-16 team for BCCI tournament with the matter being sub judicial. The secretary has assured he will look into the matter," said Pathan faction member Bimal Roy Soni.

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IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla told PTI, "All stakeholders have unanimously said eight teams are necessary. Now we will have to see how to do it. Pepsi officials strongly said they are with the IPL. All news of pull out is figment of imagination.”