What was the intention of replying to the CBI report?
That was a different matter altogether, because the CBI was asked to investigate matchfixing and related malpractices. So, first they spoke about bookies and then they spoke about these 7, 8 people. In several places in their report they have gone totally outside their ambit and made comments which bring down the dignity of the CBI. Why do you say that? Because the CBI is a criminal investigating agency. If it starts giving comments on whether an organisation runs properly or not, those comments don’t have the same validity. Do you think the comments were weighed upon? No, they were actually wrong; inaccurate. Because the figures given are all wrong. The facts are wrong. But there are some facts where I think the BCCI’s counterarguments are not convincing enough. Take, for example, the globalisation and the amount of ODIs being played. The BCCI has made a statement that says it is false that India plays more ODIs than Test matches. I mean which country plays more Tests than ODIs? I mea
