Some more shocking details emerged on the third day of the recently surfaced spot-fixing scandal that has tarnished the credibility of the cash-rich Indian Premier League. Here's a breakdown of Saturday's major developments. BCCI chief N Srinivasan says IPL not fixed BCCI President N Srinivasan came down hard on the players arrested in the spot-fixing case, telling CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar that those found guilty should be sent to jail, while...
09:09 PM, May 18, 2013
Mirzapur: Echoing demands raised in various quarters after the spot fixing expose, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday termed the IPL a mere buffoonery and said its time the league should be banned. "This league should be put to an end. IPL is not a sport but a mere 'tamasha' (buffoonery) and fixing has put a blot on it," Chouhan, who was here on a religious trip,...
08:46 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: For fast bowler Sreesanth, it was two days of sleepless nights and no bath as the disgraced cricketer was not "comfortable" with the bathroom. Alone in the small cell of the Delhi Police, he mostly looks glum, depressed and breaks down often during questioning, police sources said on Saturday. On the second day of questioning by the interrogators of the Delhi Police Special Cell, which busted the spot...
08:44 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday despatched teams to Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Hyderabad to track the money trail in the IPL spot-fixing case even as it conducted raids for the second time at the Faridabad residence of Ajit Chandila, one of the three arrested cricketers. Investigators are also looking into the bank accounts of the players to trace the flow of money and are trying to find out how...
08:18 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: In fresh trouble for pacer Sreesanth, Mumbai police's crime branch may book him in a spot fixing case registered by it and seek his custodial interrogation, Joint Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said on Saturday. Roy said permission of a competent court has been secured for obtaining "mirror images" of a laptop computer, an ipad and mobile phone seized from a room in a 5 star hotel in Bandra on...
07:04 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested another bookie named Ramesh Vyas in connection with the recently surfaced spot-fixing scandal involving three Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. Police seized 92 mobile phones, 18 sim cards from Vyas, who was said to have links with bookies involved in the spot-fixing scandal. "We have arrested a bookie named Ramesh Vyas and seized 92 mobile phones, 18 sim cards...
05:10 PM, May 18, 2013
Delhi police sources on Saturday told CNN-IBN that Rajasthan Royals' bowler Sreesanth received Rs 10 lakhs of the total 40 lakhs as fixed. Bank accounts of the players were also checked and the sources added that there were strong evidence against Sreesanth and they have enough proof to prove Sreesanth's money trail. It has also been learned that the police team was sent to offspinner Ajit Chandila's house and they...
04:54 PM, May 18, 2013
Jaipur: Jaipur police will share with their Delhi counterparts the call details of mobile phones seized during raids to assist with the ongoing IPL spot-fixing probe. "Over 250 mobile phones, some laptops and other items were seized during 16 raids in the city during the IPL season this year and call details of the mobile phones will be shared with Delhi Police to assist them in the ongoing probe in...
03:55 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: A team of the Mumbai crime branch raided the Sofitel Hotel in Mumbai's Badra-Kurla Complex on Friday night in relation to the spot-fixing case, from where they have seized a laptop that possibly belongs to the arrested Rajasthan Royals' player Sreesanth. Though it's still not certain if the laptop is owned by Sreesanth, sources have told CNN-IBN that it is possible that Sreesanth may have contacted the bookies from...
03:14 PM, May 18, 2013
Jaipur: Jaipur police will share with their Delhi counterparts the call details of mobile phones seized during raids to assist with the ongoing IPL spot-fixing probe. "Over 250 mobile phones, some laptops and other items were seized during 16 raids in the city during the IPL season this year and call details of the mobile phones will be shared with Delhi police to assist them in the ongoing probe in...
02:50 PM, May 18, 2013
Chennai: Jolted by the sensational IPL spot-fixing scandal, the BCCI's all-powerful working committee will hold an emergency meeting here on Sunday to discuss the fallout of the controversy and decide the future course of action against the three arrested cricketers. The BCCI is under intense pressure to take a tough stand as it is a second case of spot-fixing in the cash-rich IPL and indications are that they could even...
02:41 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Even as the BCCI grapples with the IPL spot-fixing scandal, its General Manager (game development), Ratnakar Shetty, said cricket is not the only game faced with a problem as all other sports in the country are battling "crisis" situations of their own. Speaking at the India Sports Forum 36, Shetty said a clean-up is required of all the sports in the country. "Indian sports is at a very important...
02:25 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The current controversy of IPL spot-fixing isn't new in the long history of controversies faced by the 20-20 format since it started in India. Now as IPL spot-fixing threatens the credibility of Indian cricket itself, it's political masters have gone into silent mode. The IPL commissioner, Union Minister Rajeev Shukla, seen at most IPL matches, gave a quote to a news agency promising strongest possible action against guilty....
10:54 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: 6:45 pm: Delhi Police say phone transcripts show bookies threatened cricketers. 5:35 pm: Delhi Police claim Rajasthan Royal player Ajit Chandila has confessed to spot-fixing in IPL 5 during his interrogation. 4:58 pm: Rs 72000 recovered from Sreesanth's hotel room, say Mumbai Police. They also say Sreesanth did not stay with the team and stayed in a different hotel. 4:47 pm: Police are in the process of retrieving...
09:49 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Sources have told CNN-IBN that a Delhi Police team has been sent out to recover the money that two of three arrested Rajasthan Royals' players - Ajit Chandila and Sreesanth - had already received from the bookies in exchange for spot-fixing in IPL 6. Chandila, it is learned, got Rs. 20 lakh. Sreesanth also received some money, but the amount is unknown. Ankeet Chavan - the third Rajasthan...
09:43 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The IPL 6 spot-fixing stain is fast spreading and sources are saying the police are now focusing on the role of underworld and more players in the scandal. There have also been reports that spot-fixing might have taken place in previous IPL editions too. The Delhi Police Special cell, which brought the scandal to the limelight, is also looking for the money trails in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and New...
08:24 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: "The Indian Premier League is a smouldering cesspit ... the sunniest of places for the shadiest people." - Robert Craddock ripped the million-dollar league apart in his column for the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph after the spot-fixing scandal that has once again put a serious question mark on the credibility of the IPL. Writing in his column, Craddock began by taking on the aftermatch IPL parties, saying...
08:16 AM, May 18, 2013
Melbourne: In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal, the Australian media has come down heavily on the Indian Premier League, terming it the "sunniest of places for the shadiest people". Errant Indian pacer Sreesanth and two other bowlers from Rajasthan Royals team were arrested in a post-midnight operation in Mumbai Thursday by Delhi Police for spot-fixing IPL matches for payments of up to Rs 60 lakhs just for giving away...
12:32 AM, May 18, 2013
Kolkata: Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday said he felt bad for Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid who had to "contend with people like Greg Chappell and S. Sreesanth" during his captaincy stints for the country and the IPL franchisee respectively. A day after Sreesanth and two other Royals players - Ankit Chauhan and Ajit Chandila - were arrested for spot fixing, Ganguly told a television channel: "I...
12:15 AM, May 18, 2013
The latest spot-fixing scandal, involving three Rajasthan Royals players, has tainted the game of cricket once again. ...
12:08 AM, May 18, 2013
