Expressing concern that there was “something seriously wrong” with the Indian cricket board which had “lost its credibility”, the Supreme Court on Monday directed that while N. Srinivasan would remain president of the BCCI, he will not be able to participate in any matter relating to the Indian Premier League and the spot-fixing scandal. Mr Srinivasan was on Sunday re-elected unopposed as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India at its annual general meeting in Chennai. He was earlier forced to “step aside” from the post in the wake of allegations of his son-in-law’s involvement in the spot-fixing of IPL matches. On Monday, the Supreme Court said that Mr Srinivasan being president of the board should not affect the probe into the IPL spot-fixing matter, in which his son-in-law has been chargesheeted as an accused. “You (Srinivasan) being there (as BCCI president) should not affect the fairness of the probe... He (Srinivasan) will continue (as BCCI president) but will not participate in the IPL issue,” said a bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik and J.S. Kehar. Expressing concern over the state of affairs in the cricket body, the bench remarked: “One thing is clear from the fact that so many things are coming from the IPL. Something is seriously wrong with the cricket body... Please tell us ... why it (BCCI) has lost credibility.” The court also told Mr Srinivasan not to be in a “hurry” and to allow the Cricket Association of Bihar to mull over his suggestion that a committee under the chairmanship of either Arun Jaitley or Vinay Dutta, both of whom are lawyers, be constituted to probe the IPL spot fixing scandal, that involves his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan. “Don’t be in a hurry. Give them (CAB) the proposal and let them consider your suggestion,” the bench said. The court fixed the matter for the next hearing on October 7, and said that it would dispose the case expeditiously. The court was hearing the plea of the CAB filed earlier seeking an interim injunction restraining Mr Srinivasan from contesting for the post of BCCI president. The CAB had also sought a direction to the BCCI that Mr Srinivasan not be inducted in any committee of the board till the matter pending in the court was decided. Cross-appeals have also been filed before the court by the BCCI and the CAB against the Bombay high court’s verdict declaring illegal the probe panel appointed by the board to examine the spot-fixing scandal.