Presuure mounted Satureday on the beleaguered of India's Cricket Boards, N Srinivasan to resign, a day after two cricketting Board's joint secrtetary and treasurer) officials quit over an escalating spot-fixing scandal. The resignation of the above mentioned two officials threw the running of the cricket body into fresh turmoil that made the front-page news in leading Indian newspapares like Times of India. declaring in a heasdline, "Game All but Over for Srinivasan." Wheras, on Friday the isolateed BCCI chief rules out his resignation. Srinivasan has been pushed to step down after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrersted last week for allegedly betting on Indian Premier League Matches. Meiyappan, an executive at the Chennai Super Kings IPL team which is wned by Srinivasan's business empire India Cement, is being probed by a three-member BCCI commission. Arun Jattey, vice president of the Board of Control for cricket in India (BCCI), hinted to reporters in New Delhi that a shakeup was in the offing for the world's richest body in the next 24-hours. Indian news channel NDTV, quoting unnamed sources reported that vice-presidents were piling pressure on the under-fire board president to quit. "Either you go or we go," the TV channel quoted the five-vice presidents as telling their boss. The arrest of Srinivasan's son-in-law came after test paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two teammates in the Rajastan Royals - Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandlia were also taken into custody. All the accused deny any wrongdoing. The players are in jail in New Delhi after police accused them of deliberately bowling badly for exchange of tens of thousands of dollars after striking deals with bookmakers.
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