After MS Dhoni’s management company came into the scanner for signing the BCCI contracted players a couple of years back, now the test skipper Virat Kohli’s management company has come under the scanner for a possible ‘conflict of interest’ as many of the current members are being managed by the company. But this report won’t create an impact like Rhiti Management’s issue because Virat doesn’t own stake in his management company unlike MS Dhoni who had some stakes in Rhiti. So far Virat’s management company Cornerstone has signed up Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and already had the likes of Rohit Sharma, Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan under them. There are reports that the company is also in advanced talks with pacer Mohammad Shami. According to Cornerstone CEO, Bunty Sajdeh, there were many others who have expressed interest in associating with his firm. At the same time, Kohli has launched his own clothing line “Wrogn” and a chain of fitness centres “Chisel” in collaboration with Cornerstone’s sister concern CSE Consulting. When asked the BCCI President Mr Jadmohan Dalmiya to comment on this issue, he said that he needed to go into the details of the deal. Mr Dalmiya said If there’s any conflict of interest on the player’s part — financial or otherwise – we will look into it. But rest assured, guidelines for the players will be out soon.
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by Sunil Vaidya on Jul 25, 2015 02:47 PM
Dalmiya also added that when he was the interim President of BCCI, he proposed a plan to clean up the ‘conflict of interest’. But his proposal never came into effect courtesy the then BCCI President N. Srinivasan. Dalmiya said: Two years ago, when I was the interim head of the BCCI, I had drawn up a 12-point programme to clean up cricket, which included the conflict of interest issue of players. I saw several players had off-the-field ventures. I also wanted the players’ agents to be accredited with the BCCI. Somehow, those clauses were not put into effect. On July 21, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur asked the BCCI board members to address the conflict of interest issue in Indian cricket by signing a declaration promising ethical integrity. Next week, India’s cricketers will be asked to sign a similar undertaking. Sajdeh, while speaking to The New Indian Express said that there was no conflict of interest in the link that connects Cornerstone and Kohli. If Virat had ownership in the agency it would have amounted to a conflict of interest. In this case, he has no ownership in the agency. Virat is a client of Cornerstone and if CSE has any business interests with Virat or Rohit or Shikhar, I don’t see a conflict of interest. CSE is a licensing company and we are doing licensing business with him. It is a legitimate business, plus I am not getting into any cricket business with him or any BCCI-related business with Virat.
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by Sunil Vaidya on Jul 25, 2015 02:47 PM
Former Indian test captain and the current ODI captain MS Dhoni had faced allegations of “conflict of interest” when it was reported that he had a 15 per cent stake in Rhiti Sports Management, a company that managed him. At the time, Rhiti had Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha and RP Singh under their management.
