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A petitioner on Monday moved a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the semifinal and final matches in the ongoing season of Indian Premier League (IPL).

India is mulling a law to deal with the issue of spot-fixing in sport following last week's arrest of cricketers and bookmakers, government officials said on Monday.

Warner will have a Cricket Australia disciplinary hearing on Wednesday over comments he made on Twitter in often angry exchanges with two journalists.

Kris Srikkanth, mentor of the Sunrisers Hyderabad, has termed the franchise's qualifying for the play-offs as similar to when India made it to the knock-outs of the 1983 World Cup.

"Young players are getting to the top without having to do a whole lot of hard work, so maybe they're getting ahead of themselves," Waugh said.

Arrested Rajasthan Royals S Sreesanth is facing more trouble as details tumble out in the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Mumbai Police sources have now told CNN-IBN that the examination of Sreesanth's laptop and notebook points to his e-mail interactions with a suspected Bollywood casting director, who sent him pictures of models. Sources say that some e-mails, possibly Sreesanth's conversations with Jiju and a bookie Jupiter, have been deleted and now the cyber cell will be asked to retrieve all the mails.

Hyderabad, who finished fourth on the table with 20 points, will clash with third placed Rajasthan Royals in the eliminator to be played in Delhi, May 22.

The questioning of the arrested cricketers and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal is continuing for the fourth day on Monday. Special Police Commissioner and Joint Police Commissioner are expected to confront the players with former Ranji Trophy player Manish Gundevar who was arrested on Sunday.

BCCI officials are expected to meet Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday over the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal, according to sources. This comes as the role of other cricketers is also coming to light in the case.