Lalit Modi said he was not scared by Chris Cairns threats of suing him for his comments about the New Zealand player's name was removed from the IPL auction list due to a match-fixing reason
The Indian Premier League Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi said he was not scared by Chris Cairns threats of suing him for his comments about the New Zealand player's name was removed from the IPL auction list due to a match-fixing reason.
"He (Cairns) is welcome if he wants to sue us... some people want to sue us all the time. But we know what we are doing and at the end of the day he is not allowed to play (in the IPL), that's it," Modi told Times Now.
Cairns' name featured in the original list for the January 19 auction but was later removed because of the match-fixing slur against his name during his stint with the Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Cairns had said he would sue Modi for comments made in relation to the IPL's decision to withdraw his name from the initial list of potential players.
"The allegation made by Lalit Modi that I have been involved in match-fixing is scandalous and wholly untrue," Cairns said in a statement issued by Andrew Fitch-Holland, his solicitor. "For him to circulate such a falsehood around the world is outrageous.
Modi's allegation has caused me huge personal distress and professional damage.u00a0 I cannot allow these slurs to ruin my future and I have instructed my solicitors, Collyer Bristow LLP, to bring proceedings for defamation against Mr. Modi".
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