Sources said that one of the two players is an Indian while the other is an international player. ...
10:38 PM, May 17, 2013
Mohali: Australian cricket great Adam Gilchrist has called for life bans if the players arrested for their alleged role in spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL are found guilty. "For my mind, any player found involved in any implications where they are proven that they have handled illegal bookmakers' bets or whatever, there is no place for them in the game whatsoever ever again. It's so clear now, we are so...
10:32 PM, May 17, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals' CEO Raghu Iyer said the arrest of three of its cricketers for alleged role in spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL has caused "immense distress" to everyone associated with the franchise. "All of the Rajasthan Royal owners, management, captain, coach and players and staff are shocked and disappointed at the entire situation which has caused immense distress to us all," Iyer said in a statement. Errant Indian pacer...
10:26 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official, who is also the Chief Investigating Officer probing the coal block allocation scam, was caught taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh on Friday. The CBI Internal Intelligence Unit nabbed Vivek Dutt in an operation that was personally supervised by the agency's director Ranjit Sinha. However, CBI sources said the bribe is not related to the coal scam. Rs 15 lakh...
10:08 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Rajasthan Royals team on Friday issued a statement on the IPL spot-fixing incident involving three of its key players, including top bowler S Sreesanth. The statement said the team management, the coach, captain Rahul Dravid, players and staff were "shocked and disappointed at the entire situation". The statement added that the team has launched an internal probe into the matter. Below is the full text of the...
09:41 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The second day of the spot-fixing crisis that threatens to tarnish the credibility of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Indian cricket saw several shocking details emerge during the interrogation of the arrested Rajasthan Royals players, Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and Amit Singh. Here's a breakdown of Friday's major developments. Sreesanth confesses to spot-fixing, say sources After initially being defiant, Sreesanth, the fast bowler who has played...
09:29 PM, May 17, 2013
Ajit Chandila is 29 and Ankeet Chavan is 27 - old enough to tell right from wrong, young enough to have time left in the game. But today, they sit in a jail cell awaiting an uncertain future. ...
08:31 PM, May 17, 2013
Ed Hawkins is the author of the book 'Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A Journey Into the Heart of Cricket's Underworld'. ...
08:25 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Indian pacer S Sreesanth, who is being quizzed along with 13 others in the IPL spot-fixing scandal case, today moved a Delhi court seeking a a copy of the FIR registered against him. Sreesanth, his two teammates of Rajasthan Royals franchise and 11 bookies were on Thursday remanded to police custody for five days. The cricketer be supplied with a copy of the FIR for preparing his defence,...
07:47 PM, May 17, 2013
Bangalore: Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Flemings today said that the spot-fixing scandal that rocked the IPL could lead to strange happenings on the field being suspected of wrongdoing and added a "sinister" approach to the game. He said the scandal, which allegedly involved India pacer S Sreesanth and his two Rajasthan Royals team-mates, has sullied the game and his players were saddened by the incident. "I have not really...
07:44 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A day after the Delhi Police unearthed an alleged spot-fixing racket in IPL matches, a host of other probe agencies have begun sniffing for any clandestine 'hawala' transactions linked to it. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is tasked to check illegal payment gateways like 'hawala' and unreported cash transactions, has started scanning operations of suspected dealers even as it plans to soon approach the Delhi Police to get...
07:10 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Lawyers of S Sreesanth and his IPL teammates Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan on Friday claimed that the players were innocent and accused the Delhi Police of "wrongly trapping" them in the IPL spot-fixing case. A day after the Indian pacer, Chandila and Chavan were remanded in five days police custody along with 11 others, their lawyers questioned the police action and accused the cops of following illegal...
07:05 PM, May 17, 2013
Various national and international sports bodies incorporate certain measures and employ observers to keep things as fixing from happening? Why doesn't BCCI do the same with the IPL? What are these steps? Joginder Singh, former CBI director, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. Betting is legalized in Countries like UK and US, lot of people say it should also be done in India to curb corruption....
06:03 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday congratulated Delhi Police for unearthing the illegal practice of spot-fixing in IPL cricket matches which led to the arrest of three cricketers and several bookies. "I congratulate Delhi Police. Whenever they do good work I appreciate," Shinde told reporters here on the sidelines of an event of border guarding force BSF. He said the probe in the case is at...
05:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Tainted pacer S Sreesanth, arrested in spot-fixing allegation case, was on Friday dropped from the advertisement for the state run Kerala Lottery. Sreesanth, who appeared in the advertisement for 'Karunya Lottery', was removed from the celebrities advertisement panel, State Lottery Directorate officials said in Thiruvananthapuram. The Rajasthan Royal IPL team player along with two of his teammates were arrested by Delhi police on Thursday for alleged spot fixing in...
05:29 PM, May 17, 2013
Lahore: A serving judge has been named by a Pakistani court to probe the murder of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died earlier this month after being assaulted within the Kot Lakhpat Jail here. Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial appointed Justice Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi to investigate the matter and submit a report to the court. However, no deadline has been given to Naqvi...
04:48 PM, May 17, 2013
The three Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila - arrested for spot-fixing by Delhi Police on Thursday. ...
04:10 PM, May 17, 2013
Politicians have condemned spot-fixing in IPL 6 saying such cricketers have brought shame to the game. Meanwhile, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has applauded Delhi Police for cracking the case. ...
03:32 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Director Ayan Mukerji would love to remake his grandfather Sashadhar Mukherjee's 1960 film 'Love in Simla'. "I loved 'Love in Simla'. I don't think many people are aware of it. If I would ever have to remake a film, it would be this movie as I loved it a lot. I have watched it many times," Ayan said in an interview. 'Love In Simla', a 1960 film, was produced...
12:37 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
