The Mumbai Cricket Association has been asked by the IPL Governing Council to lift the ban Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, so that the KKR owner is able to host the closing ceremony of the final on 1st June.
Shah Rukh owner, who was banned from the Wankhede Stadium by the MCA for five years after an argument with the association’s officials in 2012 post an IPL game which involved his team.
One of the conditions that the IPL Governing Council (GC) has put forward to the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) to change its stance of awarding the final to Bangalore, is that “all the team owners, including Shah Rukh Khan must be allowed entry into the Wankhede for the final.”
It remains to be seen if the MCA agrees to this condition, even since Shah Rukh had already faced it for a couple of years. He may be allowed to enter the stadium and watch the final from the stands, even though his ban is officially supposed to end in 2017.
An official, however, didn’t rule out cutting short SRK’s ban to ‘bring back’ the final to Mumbai from Bangalore.
“We may call a Managing Committee (MC) meeting to end the ban. We will also take MCA president Sharad Pawar’s view on this matter,” he said.
On Tuesday, the IPL GC, after a meeting at the BCCI office here, decided to refer the decision over the protest letter from Sharad Pawar on Sunday, a day earlier that the IPL final would be shifted to Bangalore from Mumbai was announced.
Source: Times Of India