Ahmedabad: 72 hours after the IPL spot-fixing scandal broke, investigations and raids are spreading outside Delhi and Mumbai. While Delhi and Mumbai figure prominently in the IPL spot-fixing case, a majority of bookies and fixers arrested are from Gujarat.
Delhi Police are now on the lookout for bookie Jitu, who is said to have played a major role. Delhi Police teams are in Rajkot, Banaskantha and Ahmedabad, with the aim of cracking his network, which is spread across several districts.
But that's not the only Gujarat connection. Jiju Janardhan and Amit Singh, the two former players turned middlemen, have both played for Gujarat. Amit Singh played for the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) before joining Rajasthan Royals while Jiju was a member in the Gujarat Under-19 and Under-22 teams.
Sources say that earlier in 2013, the Intelligence Bureau had provided the Gujarat Police with a list of 36 bookies, some of whom were possibly in touch with fixers and players. The Gujarat Police clearly did not act on this intelligence input....
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10:00 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: An international website based out of UK is being used by the bookies after the operation by Delhi Police on Thursday, say sources. Three Rajasthan Royals players and several bookies were arrested by the police, who have electronic evidence against the players and are interrogating them. Sources close to the bookies have told CNN-IBN that post crackdown, the bookies have fled the major cities like Delhi/NCR and are...
02:05 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have smashed an IPL betting racket and arrested one person in theis connection. The arrest came following a tip off that one Pawan Arora was allegedly organising betting in his rented house in Rani Bagh during the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors . Arora was arrested. Police said a decoy customer was sent who offered a deal to the...
02:55 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Arrested Indian pacer S Sreesanth and 13 others, including two other cricketers of Rajasthan Royals franchise, were on Thursday sent to police custody for five days by a court in New Delhi for being quizzed in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal case. Delhi police told the court that it seemed more persons are involved and fresh arrests are expected. The probe suggested that bookies had betted on...
09:11 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: The Clash of the Titans at Mohali is a godsend for the bookies. Call it patriotism or sound business sense, the money is firmly behind India to put it past Pakistan in the semi-final. While the whole country is gearing up to witness the mother of all cricket encounters at Mohali on Wednesday, bookies are right on their phones, working over time before this massive clash. The Men in...
09:11 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Bangalore: A special team of Bangalore Crime Branch on Thursday arrested three bookies allegedly involved in cricket betting in Bangalore. The police recovered more than Rs 2 crore in cash, 25 mobile phones, SIM cards of different telecom service providers, two revolvers, a laptop, an Internet USB device and two cars. The three bookies have been identified as 27-year-old Ravi alias Fighter Ravi, 28-year-old Vipul and 27-year-old Vinod. The trio...
03:58 PM, Feb 26, 2011
Ahmedabad: India have not won a single Test in seven years at Sardar Patel Stadium, venue of their series-opener against England and the hosts would aim to reverse the trend and gain early initiative against the tourists. It was in December 2005 that India tasted their last Test win against Sri Lanka on this ground in Motera, which made its debut as a Test centre in November 1983 when the...
08:57 PM, Jul 18, 2008
Nottingham: England Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad is confident his side can mount a successful defence of their World Twenty20 title in Sri Lanka this year despite the absence of Kevin Pietersen. Star batsman Pietersen, man of the tournament when England won the World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean two years ago, recently quit all limited overs internationals after officials refused his request to carry on playing Twenty20s while opting out ...
01:05 AM, Jun 03, 2008
Gros Islet: India A batsmen struggled yet again and managed to score 230 after being put in to bat by West Indies A in the decisive third and final Test here at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium. In reply, West Indies A were 34 without loss, with Test opener Kieran Powell unbeaten on 16 and out-of-favour senior team batsman Kraigg Brathwaite on 13. The visitors were rescued by their lower-order all-rounder...
09:04 AM, Jun 01, 2008
New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders' Australian pacer Brett Lee said his IPL skipper Gautam Gambhir is one of the most brilliant captains he has played under as the Indian backs up good leadership with strong personal performances. Gambhir is just brilliant. He is a born leader and it comes naturally to him. Besides, he backs it up with strong performances and has been leading our flock really well, Lee said ...
01:36 PM, May 20, 2008
Abu Dhabi: England will bid to put their woeful showing in the Test series behind them when they take on Pakistan in the four-match one-day series which kicks off here on Monday, captain Alastair Cook said Sunday. Pakistan blanked England 3-0 in Tests on the back of superb performance from their spinners with Saeed Ajmal (24 wickets), Abdul Rehman (19) and Mohammad Hafeez (five) plaguing rival batsmen no end. Pakistan...
09:23 AM, Apr 23, 2008
The IPL auction, set to be held in Bangalore on February 4, will see 144 players - including several former Kochi Tuskers Kerala players - go under the hammer. These players, picked according to a combination of their valuation and star worth, will be put up for auction. The players who stand to pocket hefty deals are big-ticket players from the defunct Kochi franchise. Brendon McCullum, VVS Laxman and Sreesanth ...
01:11 PM, Apr 18, 2008
New Delhi: For eight months now the Indian cricket fan has waited with breathless anticipation for the ultimate cricket icon, Sachin Tendulkar, to score his 100th international hundred. All this while, one man has stayed under the radar, doing what he has done with quiet efficiency for several years now. In this season of hype and noise, of made-for-TV fasts and high-pitched spectacles, Rahul Dravid has reaffirmed one's faith in...
05:46 PM, Mar 21, 2008
New Delhi: The suspicion raised by former India batsman Vinod Kambli over the 1996 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens has turned heads, but is there validity to what he claims? Kambli, who walked off the field on the night of March 13, 1996 in tears after the match was awarded to Sri Lanka by default, on Thursday said he found something amiss in the game. Kambli ...
03:28 AM, Mar 21, 2008
Mohali: Going by their performance in the group stage of the cricket World Cup, Wednesday's semifinal is going to be a battle between India's power-packed batting line-up and the potent bowling of the Pakistanis at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium. The build-up has been intense and to cap it all, the prime ministers of the two nations are going to witness the game from the presidential box of the...
10:47 PM, Jan 09, 2008
Dhaka: Till Thursday evening, Amir Sahin of Madaripur and Netrokona's Anwar Hossain were non-entities. But within the space of a few hours, these two men, normally seen in shabby clothes, have turned into celebrities. Sahin and Hossain make a living by ferrying people on their cycle rickshaws and were among the 14 chosen to carry the cricket captains into the Bangabandhu National Stadium on their rickety vehicles for the opening...
09:37 AM, Dec 18, 2007
Punters are having a tough time putting bets on the evenly-matched rivals. ...
07:02 PM, Sep 24, 2007
Bookies fail to predict the game. Bets per match fall to Rs 500-600 cr. ...
08:28 PM, Sep 22, 2007
Bookies say cricket is still their main business; Dutt brings that extra money. ...
10:48 PM, Jul 25, 2007
Rashid - arrested in the fake passport case - said a Hyderabad-based cricket bookie Rajupitti was the kingpin of the racket. ...
09:49 AM, May 04, 2007
