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Punjab Cricket organization leader I.S. Bindra today play down the spat between Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness Wadia and a senior police officer during Friday’s match here alongside the Deccan Chargers.Yesterday, Mohali senior manager of police Ranbir Singh Khatra had complained that Wadia had used “disparaging” language and supposed that police had stolen team T-shirts and liquor from the pavilion.Bindra described the controversy as a “media creation” though he accepted that there had been a spat. “What happen between Ness and the SSP, I was told, was an unpleasant dialogue. I reached the place where the two were present and we all three parted as gentlemen. Whatever happened amid three gentlemen I point it to the media,” he said.

Bindra shorn of Khatra’s claim that the Punjab Cricket union (PCA) owed the police Rs 1.88 crore for the security provision at the stadium. Khatra had said the PCA must pay up since the Indian Premier League was a project to make profits. Bindra said no money was due to the police. “We have an conformity. We make available money to the police welfare fund.”The PCA chief said the BCCI and the IPL were “non-profit-making organisations”. If they earn millions, they also depleted millions to build infrastructure and uphold cricket, he other.