The Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals might be away from the Indian Premier League League (IPL) for next two years but they aren't deviating from continuing their fight against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Sources close to CNN-IBN have revealed that both the franchises, who were suspended in the aftermath of the IPL spot-fixing scam, are likely to take the BCCI to court because the Board has sent them invoices, asking them to pay their franchisee fee by January 2.
The franchises insist that the fee is contentious as they are suspended. The BCCI have asked them for 30 percent of the annual franchise fee by January 2.
Earlier this year, BCCI's Working Committee didn't appeal in the court against the Justice RM Lodha panel's decision to suspend the CSK and RR until 2018 in connection with the spot-fixing scandal of 2013.
The committee also decided that IPL would remain an eight-team event in 2016 and 2017, and on December 8 the the tournament got two new teams in Pune and Rajkot.
The Pune franchise was bought by Kolkata-based business tycoon Sanjiv Goenka's company New Rising while the Rajkot bid was won by Intex Mobiles in the reverse-bidding process.
The ninth edition of the IPL will be held from April 9 to May 29, 2016.
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