NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Batting great Sunil Gavaskar was installed as interim head of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Friday after India's top court temporarily relieved N. Srinivasan of his duties as the country's cricket board president.
Srinivasan's position was deemed untenable in the wake of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan being indicted for illegal betting on last year's lucrative Twenty20 tournament with the court calling on the powerful cricket administrator to step aside to ensure a fair investigation into the scandal.
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