Mumbai: The Mumbai Police, investigating the IPL betting case, is seeking to call back Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf saying it had enough reasons to believe that he had links with bookies, sources said on Tuesday. The police is considering initiating the process to get back Rauf, sources said. Rauf was recently withdrawn as umpire from the ICC Champions Trophy after it emerged that the Mumbai Police was probing his role...
05:16 PM, May 28, 2013
Cricketnext goes through a list of some of the best batting performances of the 2013 season which changed the course of the tide. Chris Gayle (175 v Pune Warriors India): The single most memorable innings of this year's IPL was provided by none other than Christopher Henry Gayle. Royal Challengers Bangalore had an incredible run during the first half of the tournament in their backyard and when Pune Warriors went...
05:11 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday sent cricketer S Sreesanth to judicial custody till June 4 in the IPL spot-fixing case. The court rejected the Delhi Police's demand for the bowler's two-day custody and sent him to Tihar jail. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma turned down the plea of Special Cell of Delhi Police for the custody of Sreesanth saying he cannot be held liable for what has...
04:45 PM, May 28, 2013
Mumbai: A Mumbai court has sent actor Vindoo Dara Singh to further police custody till May 31 in the IPL betting scandal. The two others - hawala operator Alpesh Taneja and bookie Prem Taneja - have also been remanded in further police custody till May 31. They were produced in court on Tuesday. The police say they need to investigate if Vindoo gave a SIM card to an umpire. They...
02:23 PM, May 28, 2013
Chennai: The Mumbai Police team conducted raids at BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan's Chennai residence again on Tuesday. The police are seeking to recover more evidence in the IPL betting scandal. Meanwhile, Meiyappan's wife and mother met him in jail in Mumbai on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, the Mumbai Police recovered a mobile phone belonging to Gurunath Meiyappan from his yacht on Monday. The police, however, are still...
12:50 PM, May 28, 2013
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police are looking to summon hotelier Vikram Aggarwal aka Victor for questioning over his links to the betting racket. However, sources now say that Vikram Aggarwal is untraceable and no summons can be served till he is traced. The Mumbai Police said the call record details reveal the hotelier's link to actor Vindoo Dara Singh, BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and bookie Jupiter. Sources also...
08:36 AM, May 28, 2013
After reducing Mumbai Indians to 16 for 3 inside the first four overs of Sunday's final, and the having restricted them to 142 for 9, it was expected that the mighty Chennai Super Kings were just a step behind adding another trophy to their already inflated cabinet. But what transpired after that was nothing short of unusual. Their batsmen, somehow, looked jittery against Mumbai's attack as they went down meekly....
08:05 AM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: The custody of the three cricketers arrested in the IPL spot-fixing scandal - Ajit Chandila, S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan - ends on Tuesday. The Delhi Police is expected to seek an extension as more details are coming out of the probe each day. A Delhi Court is also set to hear the bail pleas of Chavan and Sreesanth. While Chavan has sought bail on the ground that...
07:53 AM, May 28, 2013
Notwithstanding questions over the BCCI in the wake of IPL spot-fixing, government has ruled out interference with it unless it "becomes absolutely necessary" but insists that the cricketing body should have "transparent" and "objective" systems in place to prevent malpractices. ...
11:32 PM, May 27, 2013
Notwithstanding questions over the BCCI in the wake of IPL spot-fixing, government has ruled out interference with it unless it "becomes absolutely necessary" but insists that the cricketing body should have "transparent" and "objective" systems in place to prevent malpractices. ...
11:29 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: One more suspected bookie was arrested with investigators claiming that the accused was in touch with cricketer Ajit Chandila, who is already in police custody for his alleged role in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, for "manipulating" matches. Bhupender Nagar was apprehended from Greater Noida this evening and produced before the duty magistrate who sent him to three days of police custody. "We have arrested one more person," a...
10:59 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: The lid on spot-fixing in IPL matches was blown when police was tracking alleged terror financing, officials say. It all started when police and security agencies were looking into terror financing and they came across this element of spot fixing, official sources said. There are links with terror finance but it will be premature to jump to any conclusions. Individual cases have still not been probed and it...
10:31 PM, May 27, 2013
Yet again rejecting demands for his resignation, BCCI chief N Srinivasan announced setting up of a three-member commission to go into allegations against his son-in-law and CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan. ...
08:20 PM, May 27, 2013
After the heart-breaking defeat at the hands of the same opponent in 2010, Mumbai Indians finally clinched their first IPL title, two-time winners outplaying Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs at Eden Gardens. ...
08:15 PM, May 27, 2013
BCCI chief N Srinivasan has stayed defiant in the face of crisis and refused to resign even as his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan has been sent to custody in connection with IPL betting. ...
07:59 PM, May 27, 2013
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police is likely to summon Chennai-based hotelier Vikram Aggarwal for questioning over alleged betting links, sources said on Monday. Aggarwal, who also reportedly goes by the name of Victor, is the franchisee owner of Radisson Blu. Sources said that arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh had named Aggarwal during questioning. Vindoo had reportedly told the police that a hotelier with Bollywood links was involved in betting in...
06:27 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police on Monday claimed to have recovered Gurunath Meiyappan's mobile phone from his yacht. The police is still looking for three more phones of Meiyappan, a suspect in the IPL betting case. Police sources said Meiyappan used these phones to stay in touch with bookies. Meanwhile, Meiyappan's father-in-law and BCCI chief N Srinivasan continued to defy all calls for his resignation on Monday, saying he was...
05:24 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Harbhajan Singh managed to rediscover his form in the sixth edition of the IPL by relying on flight and the feisty offspinner attributes his fantastic run in the tourney to former spin partner Anil Kumble. "I am proud to have made a significant contribution in Mumbai Indians' triumphant run in IPL 6 and Anil bhai deserves the lion's share of the credit. As the Team Mentor, his watchful...
05:17 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Notwithstanding questions over the BCCI in the wake of IPL spot-fixing, government has ruled out interference with it unless it "becomes absolutely necessary" but insists that the cricketing body should have "transparent" and "objective" systems in place to prevent malpractices. Law Minister Kapil Sibal said the government should keep away from sports "as far as possible" as it could damage it. "Sports can't be run by governments... governments...
04:32 PM, May 27, 2013
