MCA may end Shah Rukh Khan's Wankhede ban
MUMBAI: Recently, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan had reason to rejoice when his team Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel clinched the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) title. By Sunday evening, the Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner may well be in a mood to throw a party. TOI has learnt that the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) may end his five-year ban on entering the Wankhede Stadium, in a Managing Committee meeting on Sunday.
Khan was banned from entering the Wankhede in May 2012 for five years after a scuffle and heated altercation with a security guard and the MCA officials following an IPL game in which KKR beat the Mumbai Indians. Now, however, a certain section in the MCA wants that ban, which was supposed to end in 2017, to be lifted a couple of years earlier itself, since SRK has already served a substantial period of it (three years) 'respectfully' without trying to enter the stadium at any stage.
The MCA had offered to temporarily lift the ban on Shah Rukh last year, in what was a failed attempt at bringing back the IPL final from Bangalore to Mumbai. That offer, however, was just for the final. This time, however, the ban may just be consigned to history for good.
The news is likely to find favour with the BCCI and the IPL Governing Council chairman Rajiv Shukla too. Both the parties weren't too pleased about the fact that an IPL team owner and one of the most popular faces of the league could not enter one of the most famous cricket stadiums in the country.
REFRENCES=TIMES OF INDIA
MUMBAI: Recently, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan had reason to rejoice when his team Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel clinched the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) title. By Sunday evening, the Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner may well be in a mood to throw a party. TOI has learnt that the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) may end his five-year ban on entering the Wankhede Stadium, in a Managing Committee meeting on Sunday.
Khan was banned from entering the Wankhede in May 2012 for five years after a scuffle and heated altercation with a security guard and the MCA officials following an IPL game in which KKR beat the Mumbai Indians. Now, however, a certain section in the MCA wants that ban, which was supposed to end in 2017, to be lifted a couple of years earlier itself, since SRK has already served a substantial period of it (three years) 'respectfully' without trying to enter the stadium at any stage.
The MCA had offered to temporarily lift the ban on Shah Rukh last year, in what was a failed attempt at bringing back the IPL final from Bangalore to Mumbai. That offer, however, was just for the final. This time, however, the ban may just be consigned to history for good.
The news is likely to find favour with the BCCI and the IPL Governing Council chairman Rajiv Shukla too. Both the parties weren't too pleased about the fact that an IPL team owner and one of the most popular faces of the league could not enter one of the most famous cricket stadiums in the country.
REFRENCES=TIMES OF INDIA
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