BCCI didn’t snoop, only tried to stop hacking, says former official

New Delhi: The controversy over alleged snooping involving incumbent ICC chairman and former BCCI president, N Srinivasan, took a new turn.

According to a report published on Tuesday in the English daily, Indian Express, a former BCCI official claimed that the Indian cricket board, headed by Srinivasan never spied on its members, but it was just a reaction to a curious case of hacking problem that had surfaced after Lalit Modi’s ouster from the board.

In the meantime, the newly-elected BCCI board members are showing a lot of interest to solve the issue. BCCI secretary, Anurag Thakur, had already issued a notice to the former interim board president Shivlal Yadav and former secretary Sanjay Patel, asking them to provide the details of expenses incurred on information technology.

However, Thakur is still waiting for the reply.

In fact, the former board official also revealed that the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had suggested BCCI to hire the services of an England-based company, which provides services to many government agencies in the United States of America.

“There had been many instances when we sent internal mails and after few minutes we saw tweets about it. A London based company was hired to protect BCCI’s mails and there was no spying, ” the BCCI official said on condition of anonymity to the daily.

The official also rubbished that claim where media speculated that the board spent $900,000 on the same.