Shahrukh Khan linked to Kochi IPL controversy
Friday, April 16, 2010
Now it’s Shahrukh Khan who’s being linked to the Kochi IPL controversy. Sunanda Puskhar, who is purportedly involved in this controversy, is now linked to Shahrukh’s team KKR.
The businesswoman claims that earlier she was offered to join the Kolkata franchise. She tells a new agency, “I had previously been approached by Karim Morani of Kolkata Knight Riders to join them in a similar capacity and had regretted that the timing was not convenient for me.”
Event list
To which Shahrukh retorts vehemently and tweets, “We never offered a stake in KKR to anybody ever, including this lady in the midst of Kochi thing.”
Lending his support to the star is cricketer Shane Warne, who writes, “Hey buddy, you’re a champion and your charisma is something (that) I’m sure inspires a lot of people. Hang in there, sport is cruel sometimes.”
Kochi IPL controversy started when the IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi revealed the ownership details of the Kochi team, stating that Pushkar, a friend of Shashi Tharoor (Minister of State for External Affairs), owns a free equity in Rendezvous Sports, which is a part owner of IPL Kochi team.