N Srinivasan is back in cricket administration

CHENNAI: Former BCCI president N Srinivasan has commenced his second innings in the cricket arena. The octogenarian has become the chairman of Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited (CSKCL), the company that owns the five-time IPL champions — CSK.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Srinivasan and his daughter Rupa Gurunath joined the board of CSKCL for the first time in Feb this year. In the 2025 CSKCL annual report that was published on Tuesday, it was mentioned that Srinivasan took over as the company’s chairman in May from his cousin R Srinivasan. Rupa, meanwhile, was made the wholetime director just a week ago.The development comes more than a year after India Cements — the founder owners of CSK — sold their cement business to UltraTech Cement.While Srinivasan was the brain and the soul behind the formation of CSK in 2008, he never officially held a post in the franchise. But allegations of conflict of interest did take its toll on the business tycoon’s cricket administrative career, as he had to leave the post of the BCCI president when the spot-fixing scandal was at its peak in 2013.Though Srinivasan became the ICC chairman and his group ran the show in BCCI till 2015, his CSK links weighed heavily against him.