New Delhi: The IPL 6 spot-fixing and betting controversy has raised many questions about the BCCI as well as the current state of Indian cricket, and as revealed by an opinion poll conducted by CNN-IBN recently, the overwhelming response is one of disillusionment towards the governing body of the sport in India. The poll, conducted among residents of six cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai - on...
09:00 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Mumbai: Alleged bookie Kishore Badlani was on Monday arrested by the Mumbai police in the IPL betting scandal and remanded in police custody till June 6 by a local court. Badlani alias Kishore Pune was detained this morning by the police's crime branch at the international airport and later arrested and produced before a metropolitan magistrate this afternoon. Kesu Pune alias Kishore Badlani is believed to be one of the...
04:45 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Jagmohan Dalmiya, who returned to the BCCI corridors of power on Sunday by taking over the duties of the cricketing body's president, will also handle the duties of the treasurer and the secretary, sources said on Monday. The two posts were vacated by Ajay Shirke and Sanjay Jagdale, who rejected the requests of BCCI board members to come back and are unlikely to return. In effect, Dalmiya will...
04:13 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan BJP president Vasundhara Raje on Sunday said, the party, if voted to power, will take initiatives to improve condition of farmers in the state. Addressing the Suraj Sankalp Yatra in Nagaur district, Raje said the state government did not take any step for welfare of the farming community and did not consider the report of Kisan Ayog, which was submitted to the state government in 2012. The former...
03:15 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was on Sunday asked to take over BCCI's day to day activities by its members after its current chief stepped N Srinivasan stepped aside in the wake of the IPL scandal, told CNN-IBN that he is "confident of winning back the trust of the fans". Dalmiya was chosen to take over the BCCI's workings after a long meeting of the cricketing body's board members in...
11:25 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Arrested bookie Tinku Mandi has been sent to the custody of the Mumbai Police till June 6. Sources say he has admitted to having financial dealings with suspended Rajasthan Royals cricketers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila. Cricketer Ankeet Chavan is set to get married to IT consultant Neha Sambari on Sunday after he was released on conditional bail which ends on the June 6. The cricketer was given...
08:18 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Lalit Modi has held Rajiv Shukla responsible for the entire "mess" in India Premier League and said by merely resigning from the position of the IPL chairman doesn't absolve the politician-cum-cricket administrator from his "wrongdoings". Shukla on Saturday resigned from the high-profile position in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal that rocked Indian cricket, a development which puts further pressure on the beleaguered BCCI President N Srinivasan to...
09:19 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Crime Branch sleuths will keep a hawk's eye on guests attending the wedding ceremony of disgraced Rajasthan Royals cricketer and an accused in the IPL spot-fixing scandal Ankeet Chavan in Mumbai on Sunday. Chavan is tying the knot with IT consultant Neha Sambari in a low-key ceremony. The cricketer was given conditional bail by a Delhi court till June 6 for marriage. "We are keen to see who...
08:31 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: Rajeev Shukla on Saturday resigned from his post of IPL Chairman, days after the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal broke out and just ahead of the critical BCCI Working Committee meeting that may see the ouster of the cricketing body's chief N Srinivasan. Shukla, who still remains the BCCI vice president, said he made the decision to quit in the "view of recent controversies". "It is a decision...
08:29 PM, Jun 01, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals cricketer Siddharth Trivedi, who is a prosecution witness in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal, was asked by several bookies to spot fix matches, a police officer said. Trivedi, 30, a right-handed batsman and medium-pace bowler, revealed the information during his questioning by Delhi Police. Trivedi, who had played for Gujarat in Ranji Trophy for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, was questioned by Delhi...
10:23 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Coming to the defence of Union Minister and IPL Commissioner Rajiv Shukla over spotfixing-betting scandal that has rocked the T20 league, Congress on Friday said it was wrong to paint him and BCCI Chairman N Srinivasan with the same brush. Replying to queries, party spokesperson Meem Afzal said, "No relative of Rajiv Shukla is involved in all this. There is nothing prima facie against him (Shukla)". On whether...
09:44 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: In fresh trouble for BCCI chief N Srinivasan, those against him in the cricketing body have said his future will be decided in the next 48 hours, sources revealed. Earlier in the day, CNN-IBN revealed that the International Cricket Council (ICC) had already warned the BCCI over the involvement of Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan with bookies after the start of IPL 6 in April. If Srinivasan does not...
04:42 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals player Siddharth Trivedi has been made a prosecution witness by Delhi Police in the spot-fixing scandal that rocked the Indian cricket in the past two weeks. The Delhi Police spoke to Trivedi in connection with the spot-fixing case and made him a prosecution witness. Sources told CNN-IBN say Siddharth was offered bribe by bookies but he refused. The latest development will make the police case stronger....
01:04 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: 10.50 pm: Amidst reports that all the BCCI vice presidents are going to resign, one of them, Chitrak Mitra, says he is not going to put in his papers. 9.40 pm: Ankeet Chavan released from Tihar jail a day after a court granted him bail to solemnise his marriage. 9.01 pm: Sources say that all BCCI office-bearers may resign by tonight. 8.26 pm: Ajay Shirke resigns as BCCI...
11:49 AM, May 31, 2013
Jaipur: The Gurjar community will continue its protests demanding five per cent reservation for the community in jobs and educational institutions in Rajasthan. The agitation led by the Attar Singh Bhadana is expected to march from Jaipur to Delhi. Rajathan Energy Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that the Rajasthan government is in favour of reservation for the Gurjar community but needed some time as the matter was sub-judice....
09:42 AM, May 31, 2013
Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) chief Jagmohan Dalmiya has refused to be drawn into the N Srinivasan debate but said that cricket needs to be cleansed. ...
11:25 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Slamming BCCI President N Srinivasan for not calling a meeting of the Board to discuss his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan's arrest on betting charges, Board Treasurer Ajay Shirke on Thursday said that he is mulling quitting from his post on the issue, according to a report. Shirke, who on Wednesday called for Srinivasan's resignation on moral grounds, said he will wait and see for a few days before taking...
10:51 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Even as calls for N Srinivasan's exit get louder, the silence of the BJP leaders within the BCCI is baffling many. It has been nearly a week since the IPL betting controversy broke out, but Arun Jaitley, Narendra Modi and Anurag Thakur have not spoken on the issue yet. For years now, they have aggressively sought resignations of UPA ministers and the Prime Minister for corruption, on grounds...
10:07 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: "If the bowler was fixed, what was the batsman doing?" the query was posed by a Delhi court to the investigators on Thursday. The court said it was posing this query as it wanted to know if the Delhi Police was probing the role of any batsman in the spot-fixing case. "If the bowler was fixed, what was the batsman doing? How come the bowler was giving 13...
08:10 PM, May 30, 2013
Even as pressure mounts on BCCI chief N Srinivasan to step down, former cricketer Chetan Chauhan said he should resign till probe in the IPL scandal is going on. "If Gurunath is exonerated, then he can come back into the BCCI," he said. ...
05:45 PM, May 30, 2013
