DATELINE New Delhi, 27 February 2015: BCCI's side-lined president N. Srinivasan (World Cup's booed trophy handler) apologised unconditionally to the Supreme Court for presiding over the February 8 BCCI Working Committee meeting in breach of the January 2015 Court order. Suffice it to say, he has accepted his guilt.

Defiant Srini, as he is known in his circle, isn't a fast learner. Four days later: Dateline Chennai, 2 March 2015: The cements tycoon "committed contempt of a Supreme Court order by participating in the AGM of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)," the world's richest cricket body; no wonder his desperation.

Srinivasan was earlier asked by the apex court to step aside (huh!) as BCCI president due to conflict of interest in him holding both a BCCI position and ownership of two-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings, a franchise bought for Rs. 480 crore in 2008.

70-year old Srinivasan landed in hot soup when his son-in-law, also Chennai Super Kings principal, Gurunath Meiyappan was implicated in the IPL spot-fixing betting scandal. Chee! Meiyappan was charge-sheeted by the Mumbai Crime Branch. Chee chee!

It is said that there is nothing (criminal) against Srini, and I am no LL.B, but it is my understanding that the court in India does not normally punish the innocent. Ever since the deplorable match-fixing crime was unearthed in his family, 'Srinivasan was under enormous pressure to resign as (BCCI president) on moral grounds.'

Last Sunday Srini caught the headlines again for the wrong reasons; he had the audacity to violate the ICC constitution to hand over the Cricket World Cup trophy at Melbourne to Australian captain Michael Clarke. According to ICC's Memorandum and Articles of Association clause 3.3 (B), unanimously approved by Full Council in January 2015, "… the President shall act solely as chairman at Conference and Special Meetings and be responsible for presenting trophies at global competitions and cricket events..."

So, a business mogul with merely college-level cricketing background, and considered unfit by the Indian court to adorn the post of president of his country's cricket board, managed by his guile and weird ICC connections to climb to the chairmanship of the International Cricket Council (I chee chee). Since the Cup controversy, there is demand from Indian officials to call Srini back from ICC because he was not nominated by the incumbent Board of Jagmohon Dalmiya. It is getting interesting.

Meanwhile, snubbed ICC president, also Bangladesh's Planning Minister, AHM Mustafa Kamal, did kamal by announcing his resignation soon after the finals award ceremony, which passed as rumour almost immediately, but Kamal did announce his resignation three days later on home soil, perhaps something Srinivasan should follow to return cricket to its stature of a 'gentleman's  game'. Not many Bangladeshis have done as Kamal, a move perhaps unanticipated by Srini at first slip.

 "I cannot work with them beyond the ICC constitution," Kamal told a crowded press conference at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport last Tuesday."…these kind of people are polluting the game. It is my earnest request to the ICC to revisit these things…," he added.

While Kamal's tekka with Srini, although not mentioned by name, is appreciated even by some Indian fans, the former BCB boss's outburst, however, following Bangladesh's defeat to India under dubious circumstances 19 March, is not palatable since he was the then ICC president. He could have at best said that he would raise certain issues concerning the match at the ICC board meeting, and let BCB president Nazmul Hasan Papon do the remonstration. After the defeat to India, aided by Aleem Dar's 'No Ball' and Shikhar Dhawan's 'No Left Foot', Kamal had blurted that the ICC "has become Indian Cricket Council." (Dhaka Tribune, 19 March 2015)

Difficult to digest also is the former ICC president's threat to expose 'mischievous' designs of some (ICC) people who had denied him the 'constitutional right' to hand over the WC trophy. Kamal's wait to reveal ICC wrongdoings ONLY after he was denied to hold the cup lacks credibility; he should have revealed the unlawful activities whether he is honoured or not. Kamal, as well as other ICC officials now, it seems have been hiding ICC sins under their belt.

 "…I wasn't allowed to do so (give the trophy). My rights were dishonoured. After I go back home, I will let the whole world know what's happening in ICC. I will let the whole world know about those guys…," Kamal told Bangladeshi channels. Kamal insisted that he had not spoken against any country but said that he was denied for 'speaking the truth' about 'poor umpiring'. (Press Trust of India, 30 March 2015)

Srinivasan is a disgraced cricket organiser in his own country. Kamal is not. Srinivasan violated the ICC constitution and the Indian Court order time and again. Kamal did not. Srinivasan has friends in the ICC. Kamal does not. That speaks a lot for the gentlemen, who today man ICC.

Here's hoping that the ugly Srinivasan episode does not sour Bangladesh-India cricketing relationship and that the venom spewing now on the social networks is just the way young blood like to pull at each other's leg.

The writer is a practising Architect at BashaBari Ltd., a Baden-Powell Fellow Scout Leader, and a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow.