New Delhi: The mess in Indian cricket deepened on Friday when BCCI Treasurer Ajay Shirke and Secretary Sanjay Jagdale resigned from their posts, hours after CNN-IBN exposed that the ICC had warned the Indian board over Chennai Super Kings' owner Gurunath Meiyappan's links with bookies. Jagdale, who was also on the three-man probe panel appointed to investigate Meiyappan, India Cements and Rajasthan Royals, said, "I don't want to give a...
08:45 PM, May 31, 2013
Mumbai: The BCCI on Friday made it clear that it had not been told by ICC regarding the world body's reported warning to betting accused Gurunath Meiyappan to keep away from bookies at the start of IPL 6 as has been claimed by him during police interrogation. BCCI Cheif Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty told reporters that ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit chief Y P Singh was present during the Board's...
07:47 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: BCCI president N Srinivasan has outrightly denied that the ICC warned the Indian board about his arrested son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings' CEO and Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan's links with bookies. "I have received no information from the ICC," he said after CNN-IBN accessed the transcripts of conversation between arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh and Meiyappan, which led to this big revelation in the ongoing IPL scandal....
07:46 PM, May 31, 2013
CNN-IBN's National Affairs Editor Bhupendra Chaubey on PM Manmohan Singh's statement on the IPL spot-fixing controversy. ...
07:06 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: India has asked the British government as to why it is not taking action against former IPL chief Lalit Modi who has sought refuge in London. Sources say Finance Minister P Chidambaram took up the issue of Lalit Modi during his meeting with the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chidambaram reportedly asked why UK was not taking action despite the fact that Modi's passport has been impounded and...
12:33 PM, May 31, 2013
First a confession: I am an IPL convert. I find the T20 game inventive, exciting and almost addictive. I have even learnt to take in ...
12:04 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: N Srinivasan, firmly entrenched till a couple of months ago not just as the BCCI chief but as the most powerful cricket official in the world, has his reign hanging by a thread now. BCCI members from around the country are now more than merely nudging him to step aside. But this endgame threatens to be messy. Srinivasan knows that 24 of 30 members are needed to impeach...
09:27 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed documents that show former BCCI chief Sharad Pawar had in fact helped BCCI chief N Srinivasan. Documents show that Sharad Pawar as the then BCCI President endorsed India Cements' bid for IPL team. CNN-IBN has accessed Pawar's letter giving an approval to Srinivasan to own an IPL team. Pawar as the BCCI president in 2008 approved change in the constitution and enabled Srinivasan to bid...
03:10 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Suspended Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet Chavan's bail plea will come up in a Delhi court on Thursday in the IPL spot-fixing case. Abhishek Shukla, who acted as a conduit between the players and bookies will also be produced in court along with three others. Meanwhile, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Wednesday night said there is a possibility of involvement of an IPL team besides Rajasthan Royals in...
09:42 AM, May 30, 2013
Mumbai: Former great V V S Laxman on Wednesday said the "credibility" of cricketers should not be "affected" just because of the presence of some greedy players who are lured into malpractices such as spot-fixing through use of big money and freebies. "It is very important because just for some greedy players, the credibility of the rest of the players should not be affected. I think it is a very...
08:36 PM, May 29, 2013
Kolkata: Reacting to IPL 6 spot-fixing scandal, the former BCCI and ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Wednesday night said that it's high time that cricket was purged of the filth it has accumulated in the last couple of decades. "This is a golden opportunity to clean cricket. The dirt in cricket has gone down deep and no one is bothered. We are losing the opportunity to clean up the game,"...
08:31 PM, May 29, 2013
The BCCI treasurer also insisted that the spot-fixing inquiry will not in any way be influenced by the Indian board. ...
07:53 PM, May 29, 2013
Cricketnext caught up with India, Bengal and Pune Warriors India pace bowler Ashok Dinda to get his thoughts on his and the franchise's performance in IPL 6, his axing form the national team for the ICC Champions Trophy and working with South African great Allan Donald. Excerpts from the interview: Not a good tournament for the team, but how do you rate your IPL 6? The tournament was not that...
06:27 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: Frustrated with the spot-fixing scandal and a series of other controversies that have plagued the Indian Premier League, the event's chairman Rajeev Shukla on Wednesday said he was not keen to take up the position again. Shukla said his tenure was for a one-year period which is renewed every year and he was not willing to take up the high-profile post for a third consecutive term. "IPL Chief...
05:36 PM, May 29, 2013
Mumbai/New Delhi: 6.56 pm: Four more bookies were arrested by the Delhi Police on Wednesday in connection with the IPL spot-fixing case. With this, the number of arrests in the case has gone up to 26. The Delhi Police arrested alleged bookie Abhishek Shukla, who is accused of cleaning up Sreesanth's hotel room in Mumbai, thus destroying evidence. Bookies Vikas, Vinod and Nitin Jain were also picked up by Delhi...
10:12 AM, May 29, 2013
Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday said BCCI chief N Srinivasan must resign till his name was cleared in the IPL betting scandal. ...
10:18 PM, May 28, 2013
India captain MS Dhoni chose to remain quiet when confronted with spot-fixing questions in a press conference here on Tuesday evening. ...
10:12 PM, May 28, 2013
Sharad Pawar, the former BCCI president, is all set to contest elections to the Mumbai Cricket Association. ...
06:53 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday for the first time told the court hearing the IPL spot-fixing case that the racket had links to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. The police told the court that one of the bookies, Tiku Mandi, was in touch with a D-company pointsman. Meanwhile, the court rejected the Delhi Police's demand for extension of cricketer S Sreesanth's custody. Rejecting his bail plea, the court sent...
06:24 PM, May 28, 2013
CNN-IBN's Meenakshi Mahadevan reports from outside hotelier Vikram Aggarwal's residence. Aggarwal is likely to be summoned by the Mumbai and the Chennai Police for questioning in the IPL betting case. ...
05:36 PM, May 28, 2013
