Long before boos rang at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on a muggy March evening, Narayanaswami Srinivasan had become one of the most unpopular men in world cricket. It was the World Cup final presentation ceremony. Srinivasan was persona non grata in ...
the Indian board after the Supreme Court had barred from holding any post in the BCCI over his conflict of interest issue. But he was still wielding enormous clout in world cricket by virtue of being the ICC chairman. He wasn’t there because he was well-liked. He was there because he had an insatiable appetite for power and was ruthless in his pursuit of it.
