New Delhi: Kolkata tycoon Sanjeev Goenka and Indian ODI and T20 skipper MS Dhoni have shown interest in acquiring IPL clubs which will be up for the grabs.
According to a report in Mid-Day, the cricketer along with business tycoon Sanjeev Goenka informed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that they have the required resources to buy the teams, whose base price is from Rs 40 crore.
Goenka – the head of the RPG group – is keen to buy a team from any city as the Kolkata franchise is already owned by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan.
It is learnt that Goenka – also the co-owner of ISL franchise Atletico De Kolkata – has been advised to pump money in cricket by none other than former India captain Sourav Ganguly, his partner in Atletico.
On the other hand, Dhoni apparently has support of Ranchi-based industrialists, including the Mittals, to own a team. The report says that the other companies backing Dhoni include Videocon and JSW Steel.
Details of IPL's new teams will be discussed during a board meeting in Mumbai today.
