New Delhi: Expressing concern over the spot-fixing controversy in the ongoing IPL tournament, Congress on Thursday hoped the arrest of three cricketers would prove a "deterrent" to others involved in such illegal activities. "People of the country will lose interest in the game, if this creeps into their mind that the match is fixed. And then as a result, the stadia will go empty," party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said. He...
10:36 PM, May 16, 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
New Delhi: Indian pace bowler S Sreesanth, who along with others, is embroiled in a spot-fixing controversy that has rocked the ongoing IPL, on Thursday claimed in a Delhi court that he is innocent and was framed in the scandal. Opposing Delhi police's plea seeking seven-day custodial interrogation of all the accused, advocate Deepak Prakash, who appeared for Sreesanth, told reporters that he told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma...
09:50 PM, May 16, 2013
In the biggest cricket scandal since the last decade, three Rajasthan Royals players were arrested on Thursday morning for spot fixing. In the national capital, the Delhi police revealed details of how the well organised crime was committed on the cricket pitch. ...
09:18 PM, May 16, 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
New Delhi: Excerpts of tapped conversations between bookies and IPL cricketers read out by Delhi Police during a press conference here announcing the arrest of three players and 11 bookies allegedly involved in spot-fixing: The first conversation was before a match between Pune Warriors and Rajasthan Royals on May five allegedly between player Ajit Chandila and a bookie Amit: Chandila: Yes, tell me brother. Let me go. I will give...
08:45 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Shocked by the allegations of spot-fixing against three Rajasthan Royals' players, former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar said he was astonished that some cricketers were tempted to make a quick buck despite IPL rewarding them handsomely. "I am completely shocked. It's a great platform for players to showcase their talent. They are even rewarded over-handsomely...some of them perhaps over handsomely. To find out that some players are tempted to...
08:40 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Indicating an underworld connection to the spot-fixing scandal in Indian Premier League (IPL), Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said on Thursday details of involvement of bookies and players started coming out while underworld elements were being investigated in March. "We started investigating the bookies in April. Our teams were present at the IPL grounds," he told CNN-IBN. Underscoring the seriousness of the scandal, in which three Rajasthan Royals...
08:37 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Rahul Dravid, the former Indian batsman and current captain of IPL franchise Rahul Dravid, has released a statement in which he has expressed shock and disappointment at Thursday's revelations by the Delhi Police after the arrests of his Rajasthan team-mates Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in Mumbai. Speaking on behalf of the Rajasthan management, Dravid also said the team wholly supported the statements issued by BCCI president...
07:49 PM, May 16, 2013
Hyderabad: After losing a hard-fought contest to Mumbai Indians on Wednesday, Rajasthan Royals were jolted by a spot-fixing scandal the next day which involved three of its players being arrested on allegations of illegal activity. To recover from something as big as this requires a lot of effort but Rajasthan is just the team that has the capability to do it and maintain the bar they have set in this...
07:42 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi, while defending himself and his tenure in the IPL, said he had information about match-fixing and spot-fixing in the sport and that he had told CEO Sundar Raman about irregularities in IPL. He also said he was attacked and criticised for trying to bring "accountability and transparency" in IPL. "There should be zero-tolerance against incidents such as spot-fixing and there...
07:23 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Australia and Rajasthan Royal fast bowler Shaun Tait on Thursday reacted with anger after being wrongly named in the IPL 6 spot-fixing saga which has so far lead to the arrests of three Rajasthan players Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. Tait in a release statement: "I was deeply distressed by the rumours that were rapidly circulating about me, most of which were aired in the social media...
07:02 PM, May 16, 2013
The three Rajasthan Royals players - S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila - arrested for spot-fixing by Delhi Police on Thursday will take no further part in IPL 6. ...
06:53 PM, May 16, 2013
Kings XI Punjab owner Preity Zinta, while commenting on the IPL spot-fixing scandal, suggested random polygraph test for cricket players to keep a check on match-fixing. "As owners, we are very vulnerable. We are victims. You spend so much money and then you hear about something like this. It's terrible. If it is true, it's disgusting," she added. ...
06:46 PM, May 16, 2013
Fixing is nothing new to either Indian or international cricket? How can a proper mechanism be devised to clean up the sport? Cricket analyst Ayaz Memon joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Don't you think self-regulation can't work when it comes to BCCI? Isn't that an oxymoron? Don't we need a sports regulator? Asked by: Animesh Saha A. I am not sure how a sports regulator...
06:37 PM, May 16, 2013
How do these arrests affect the credibility of the IPL? The league has already received flak from international press for even allowing sitting BCCI officials to own and operate teams? Does this affect the credibility of BCCI and Indian cricket too? Lawyer Rahul Mehra joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. I think we are going to get more shocking revelation from Sreesanth..think will get more high...
06:33 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
In a startling and first-of-its-kind press conference, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar and DCP, Special Cell Sanjeev Yadav revealed how the authorities had tracked and uncovered a ring of illegal activity between bookies and three members of the Rajasthan Royals IPL franchise, chiefly India fast bowler Sreesanth who was arrested in Mumbai along with the lesser-known Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan today. ...
05:49 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
