Is Subhash Chandra going to challenge ICC this time?

In the times when Star has been on a buying spree Zee owned Ten Sports has kept their purses tight. It almost look like a complete knock out by Star. 

But wait, if media reports are to be believed Subhash Chandra is planning a return to the cricket pitch with Lalit Modi.  Reacting to these media reports Lalit Modi tweeted

I wish @_SubhashChandra all the best in this new venture. I have nothing to do with it. But we need a rival body - http://t.co/TShcsySVXX
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) April 27, 2015

Earlier the International Cricket Council (ICC) launched an urgent investigation after reports of Zee group began registering companies in the names of cricket boards.

A report in ‘The Guardian’ said that the matter of the registration of website domain names, including worldcricketcouncil.co.in, by an employee of the broadcaster Ten Sports, was discussed during last week’s ICC board meeting in Dubai. 

At the same time, a number of website domain names, which include cricketassociationofengland.co.in and other variants have been registered, with their origin traced back to a senior IT manager at Ten Sports. 

Chandra has long wanted to disrupt the cricket economy. Running a fleet of sports channels under Ten Sports. There are also some reports of Ten Sports getting complete make over later this year.

Ten Sports does not have the rights to telecast international cricket played in India which is with Star, and the IPL which is with Multi Screen Media (MSM). Star also has the rights to show international matches played in Australia and England. Chandra’s TV rights extend to the five boards – South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

With the changed power scenario in New Delhi Subhash Chandra could throw up a challenge to the power structure enjoyed by Srini-Pawar group.

After India’s early exit in Cricket World Cup 2007 and losing BCCI broadcasting rights to Nimbus Chandra launched domestic Indian Cricket League in 2007 which ended its innings in 2009.

Incidentally, same Lalit Modi was at the forefront of the kill ICL campaign of the BCCI. As the IPL commissioner then, he was obviously opposed to Chandra creating a T20 league. But this time it looks like a bigger pitch, a challenge to the ICC.