The battle between suspended Indian Premier League commissioner and chairman Lalit Modi and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) gets murkier by the day.
The latest allegation to emerge is that Modi, who was at loggerheads with the BCCI while the third edition of the IPL was being played, had tried to float a rebel Twenty20 League in England.
Modi has now been charged by his board for bringing the game into further disrepute.
In response, Modi has filed a case of defamation against Giles Clark, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), for making an "unfounded charge" that he was behind plans to launch an unofficial Twenty20 league in England.
IMG, who have event-managed the IPL for the past three years, have also been fingered by the ECB's chairman and they, too, are considering suing Clarke.
The event management company insist that they only facilitated the meeting at the request of the parties. This, they say, took place to discuss the challenges faced by English cricket and the commercial prospects of a tournament.
Modi has vehemently denied setting up a rebel league.
Soon after returning from the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix at the weekend, he claimed: "It's now become part of my life to be public enemy No.1 to the BCCI, but I won't react to it."
It is alleged Modi proposed to the counties that the eight IPL franchises would financially support the teams to kick off a league in England similar to India's cricket showpiece.
This prompted an outraged Clarke to send a strongly worded e-mail to the BCCI, accusing Modi of planning "to destroy world cricket's structure and especially that in England, by creating a new rebel league".
The Indian board quickly issued a notice to the ex-IPL commissioner and chairman, referring to his March 31 meeting with the representatives of English counties - Yorkshire, Lancashire and Warwickshire - all of whom allegedly met Modi in New Delhi in March.
But the man who has been widely credited for making the IPL one of the best marketed global sporting events, has now fired back at Clarke for making "unfounded allegations which the BCCI has cottoned on to".
Modi added that he was appalled at Clarke's "preposterous allegation".
"How could I go with a proposition such as the one Clarke credits me with when I was the person who was opposed to Indian Cricket League (ICL), Arab League and US League," Modi said.
Initially, Modi faced five charges, which have been reduced to four, as the BCCI has decided to drop charges from a source, who told Shashank Manohar that Modi was involved in tarnishing the image of the board and the game.
The remaining charges are: bidding for the Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab franchises, charging a fee for re-negotiating the IPL's broadcast rights, rigging the two new franchise bids and behaving badly.
Modi's defence team, led by his lawyer Mehmood Abdi, prepared a lengthy 15 000-page submission which was handed to the BCCI.
They are now awaiting a response.