Mumbai: The BCCI top brass boycotted the inaugural IPL Awards Night held at a suburban hotel here Friday evening in the wake of the spat with IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi.
BCCI President Shashank Manohar, Secretary N Srinivasan, and IPL vice-chairman Niranjan Shah stayed away from the event while team owners Vijay Mallya (Royal Challengers Bangalore), Preity Zinta (Kings XI Punjab), Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra (Rajasthan Royals), Gayatri Reddy (Deccan Chargers) and Jay Mehta (Kolkata Knight Riders) turned up.
The entire Governing Council, barring Sunil Gavaskar, also shunned the event though most of the players came to attend the ceremony.
The Awards Night, to honour the best-performing players in the IPL over the last month and a half, was a Bollywood-style entertainment extravaganza in which Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar were the co-hosts.
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