February 4, 2011

MEDIA RELEASE

The IPL Governing Council at its meeting held today took the following decisions:

1. Based on the views from Franchisees, IPL Governing Council decided not to make available the unsold Indian Players from the auction.

2. Based on the complaints from Franchisees and after meeting with the player, IPL Governing Council has imposed a four IPL match ban on Manish Pandey. He cannot play the first four matches of IPL Season 4. As desired by him, he is permitted to play for the Pune Franchise.

3. As regards the letter from M/s. India Win Sports Private Limited (Mumbai Indians) regarding the recent IPL auction, the Governing Council was briefed by the operational team including IMG on all aspects of the letter. The procedure followed in this year’s auction is exactly the same as was done in all the previous IPL auctions. Representatives of all Franchisees had read the auction briefing note prepared by the IMG which included the changes referred to and signed the same in acceptance before the auction including the India Win Sports Private Limited (Mumbai Indians). The Governing Council reiterates that the auction was transparent and fair.

4. The following Committees were appointed for IPL Season 4:

Code of Behaviour Committee

Shashank Manohar

Arun Jaitley

Chirayu Amin

Ravi Shastri

Ajay Shirke

Technical Committee

Chirayu Amin

Mohinder Amarnath

Ravi Shastri

MP Pandove

Sanjay Jagdale

Ranjib Biswal

Entertainment Committee

Chirayu Amin

Rajeev Shukla

Anurag Thakur

Ranjib Biswal

Therapeutic Usage Exemption (TUE) Committee

Independent physicians arranged through IDTM

Suspect Bowling Action Committee

S Venkatraghavan

AV Jayaprakash

Javagal Srinath

Mohinder Amarnath

N Srinivasan

Hon. Secretary