The IBN18 Editor-in-Chief reflects on the latest IPL spot-fixing scandal on his video blog 'Directly Rajdeep Sardesai'. ...
02:26 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: BCCI has called an emergency meeting of its Working Committee on Sunday to discuss the IPL spot-fixing saga that has returned to haunt Indian cricket, while dismissing cricketer-turned-bookie Amit Singh, one of the several bookies arrested by Delhi Police along with three Rajasthan Royals' players. "The President, BCCI, has convened an Emergent Working Committee Meeting at 11:00 am on Sunday, 19 February 2013, at the Park Sheraton, Chennai,"...
01:50 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi police on Friday claimed that arrested Rajasthan Royals players Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan confessed before the probe team to their involvement in spot-fixing in IPL 6 matches. Chavan reportedly said that he got lured and made a huge mistake by indulging in spot-fixing. Sources say the transcript shows that Chavan was initially reluctant but later succumbed to the bait as the bookies kept on increasing the...
12:03 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The BCCI committee on corruption will investigate the latest IPL spot-fixing scandal, which involves Rajasthan Royals' players Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila, and then refer the matter to the IPL Disciplinary Committee headed by Arun Jaitley - sources told CNN-IBN on Friday. Sources also told that once the matter reaches the Disciplinary Committee, it will hear the case and recommend future course of action. But before that,...
10:48 AM, May 17, 2013
Karachi: Pakistan has supported the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) in the controversial appointment of L Sivaramakrishnan as a player's representative in the ICC, saying that it voted against incumbent Tim May due to its own disliking for the Australian. An official in the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed that the PCB voted against May when his nomination came up and after the BCCI put forward the name of Sivaramakrishnan for a...
10:23 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: 9.20 pm: Rajasthan Royals issued a statement saying its management and team members and other staff were shocked at the spot-fixing incident involving three of its players. The statement added it had launched an internal probe into the incident. 8.01 pm: The Delhi Police said it has no reasons to interrogate cricketer Rahul Dravid or Rajasthan Royals owners Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty in connection with the spot-fixing...
08:54 AM, May 17, 2013
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." So said the fictional money-loving inside trader in Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street. Watching the revelations of Thursday, it is clear that greed is anything but. Needless to say in the next five days while Rajasthan Royals cricketers Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan remain in police custody there will be much hypothesizing, pontificating and vilifying. Fingers will be pointed,...
08:20 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A day after three Rajasthan Royals players - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - were arrested and suspended for alleged spot-fixing, the Delhi Police special cell is set to question the arrested bookies for more details. Sources say more than 15 other matches played in IPL 6 are under the radar and this includes teams apart from Rajasthan Royals. Police sources also say they have taped...
07:52 AM, May 17, 2013
BCCI President N Srinivasan said he is shocked at the IPL 6 spot-fixing scandal. "I am personally appalled and shocked at what has happened. If the allegations are true and there is proof about it, we will take strong action," he said. ...
10:27 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday extended its full support to the BCCI who earlier in the day decided to suspend the three Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila - who were arrested for their alleged involvement in corruption in the IPL. Cricket's governing body, via a statement, also agreed to wholly support the Delhi Police in its investigations into spot-fixing in IPL...
09:53 PM, May 16, 2013
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, while commenting on the IPL spot-fixing case, said he is really disappointed with S Sreeesanth. 'Really disappointed with Sreesanth, it's sheer stupidity and waste of talent. His ability to play for India in 70-80 matches, it's a sheer waste. But I am not surprised, I have always found him temperamental," said Ganguly. ...
06:02 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) report on fixing in the IPL in which it had warned the BCCI and the nine IPL franchises about the dangers of fixing in the lucrative Twenty20 league. The ICC report wrote that the IPL has considerably increased the risk of match-fixing and spot-fixing. The ACU had also asked the BCCI and franchises to monitor players' agents as...
05:27 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Former BCCI president Sharad Pawar on Thursday demanded "strict action" against three cricketers allegedly involved in spot-fixing in the IPL if they are found guilty, saying such incidents bring "disrepute" to the game. "Somebody who associates himself with match-fixing, I think strict action should be taken against these set of players. They bring disrepute to the game and the nation. BCCI should take strict action against the players...
02:49 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Shocked by the recently surfaced spot-fixing scandal, BCCI president N Srinivasan said the board will not hesitate in taking the strongest possible action against anyone who will be found guilty. "[I'm] shocked and upset. [We] won't hesitate in taking strictest action. The IPL [Governing Council] has already suspended the three players. We will give full cooperation to the police," Srinivasan told reporters from Kodaikanal in a video conference....
02:21 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy will receive a grand farewell after all with the perceived threat of a pull-out by the game's most powerful cricket board, and in effect the 50-over world champions, having dissipated. Hard-pressed for promotion in what is its final run, the ICC Champions Trophy will have a stately exit with all decks cleared for India to take up the challenge of adding another limited-overs...
06:08 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Indian cricket team's upcoming tour of Zimbabwe, earlier scheduled to be held in July, has been put "on hold" due to "fatigue factor". The tour was supposed to follow the Champions Trophy in England and a tri-series in the West Indies from June 28 to July 11. The tour has been put on hold due to "fatigue factor", a BCCI official was quoted as saying by 'ESPNcricinfo'. The...
05:48 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) is unlikely to probe the election of former India legspinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan as the players' representative on the ICC Cricket Committee, sources told CNN-IBN on Thursday. Siva, as he is popularly known as an expert commentator, last week replaced Australia's Tim May on the committee in a voting process that involved votes of the 10 Test captains; however, May raised doubts over the...
02:17 PM, May 15, 2013
According to reports, BCCI has threatened to pull Team India out of Champions Trophy over rift with ICC on L Sivaramakrishnan's appointment as a players' representative in the governing body. BCCI is not happy with the noise being made over Sivaramakrishnan's election to the ICC's Cricket Committee ahead of Tim May, the chief executive officer of FICA. ...
08:39 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Even as the controversy over Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's appointment to the ICC Cricket Committee raged on, the BCCI on Monday received support from its Asian allies Sri Lanka and Pakistan who claimed allegations of the Indian Cricket Board forcing a re-vote were baseless. The furore over the appointment seemed to have created a rift in the cricket world with the Asian countries throwing their weight behind BCCI, which is...
04:30 PM, May 13, 2013
FICA chief executive Tim May told CNN-IBN that there are enough evidence to proof that captains have been influenced and not allowed to vote according to their choice. ...
12:07 PM, May 13, 2013
