Judges propose Gavaskar takes over BCCI

India's Supreme Court recommended Thursday that batting legend Sunil Gavaskar step in as head of the country's cricket board and banned two teams from this year's IPL over their role in a betting scandal.

After warning the incumbent N. Srinivasan that they could order him to quit, a panel of judges proposed 64-year-old Gavaskar take over on an interim basis as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

"In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president," Justice A.K. Patnaik said at a hearing in New Delhi.

The two-man panel also said the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals – the two teams at the centre of an ongoing probe into illegal betting and match-fixing – should be barred from the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) beginning next month.