NEW DELHI, Nov 1: BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi has hit back at SLC chairman Arjuna Ranatunga for his “continuous blasting” of the Indian Premier League, saying his outbursts were totally uncalled for.

Ranatunga had blamed the IPL for causing a loss of $3 million revenue to SLC due to the postponement of Sri Lanka’s England tour next year. “Ranatunga is totally unjustified in his continuous blasting of IPL,” Modi said. “At a meeting held in Bangkok a few weeks ago where BCCI officials met the Sri Lankan management the BCCI secretary (N Srinivasan) had clearly pointed out that it had no idea why such hostility exists.

Modi said SLC alone was to be blamed for the clash of dates of the second season of IPL and Lanka’s England tour next year as it knew the IPL schedule before fixing dates with ECB. “We prepared our (IPL) schedule as per the FTP, which is prepared years in advance, and we signed the players for a certain term based on that.”—Agencies