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[REPORT] Indian 2011 World Cup winning team member under scrutiny for match-fixing ties

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A MEMBER of India’s 2011 World Cup-winning squad is being probed for possible links to a match-fixing syndicate that organised a domestic T20 tournament in Jaipur last July, The Indian Express has learnt.

The tournament, Rajputana Premier League (RPL), had first come under BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Security Unit (ACSU) last year and is being investigated by Rajasthan Police’s CID. The RPL involved club cricketers and was telecast live on Neo Sports, the former rights-holders of Indian cricket.

Sources said Rajasthan Police have found that the mastermind of the “organised cricket racket” who partly bankrolled the RPL has business links with the former international player who represented India in all three formats of the game.

It is learnt that the former player had been spotted on the sidelines of the tournament that witnessed bizarre passages of play. For instance, sources said, a bowler conceded eight byes by bowling “blatant wides” in the final over of a tight contest. Subsequently, the BCCI requested Rajasthan Police to probe the league.

Police obtained information regarding the former player while questioning 14 persons arrested from four hotels in Jaipur last July for suspected betting and fixing activities linked to the RPL, including organisers, players, umpires and alleged bookies. Police said that cash, mobile phones, walkie-talkies and laptops were recovered from them.

While all those arrested are out on bail, the case was transferred to the CID last November.

When contacted by The Indian Express, Additional DGP CID (Crime) Pankaj Kumar Singh said they are following all leads. “We are currently probing links between private entities, those who are part of the cricket fraternity and officials. We will take action if there is evidence that links them to corruption,” he said.

However, Singh declined to discuss the involvement of the former India cricketer. Sources said investigators are banking on call detail records to connect the dots and hinted at the possibility of the case turning “high-profile”.

Of late, at least half-a-dozen “dubious” domestic T20 leagues, with modus operandi similar to the RPL, have seen the BCCI and police joining hands in investigation. According to investigators, these leagues resemble TV reality shows with virtually everyone involved — organisers, players and umpires — colluding with bookies who decide which way the matches would swing.

Sources said investigators have unearthed other details of the racket.

For instance, they said, a “spotter” or “handler” is stationed at a strategic spot just outside the ground to ensure that the pre-decided pattern of play is followed. They said the “spotter” conveys instructions from bookies through walkie-talkies used by field umpires, who inform the players.

Sleuths believe the organisers of such leagues make anything between Rs 2 crore to Rs 3 crore in a week.

Speaking to The Indian Express in February, when the ICC started investigating the role of Indian bookies and betting cartels in a UAE T20 league, the BCCI ACSU’s former chief and current advisor Neeraj Kumar warned about fly-by-night IPL offshoots.

“This is a new methodology bookies and fixers have come up with. They host a private T20 tournament, select a venue and arrange to have it telecast. Because if you telecast it, then the bookie community and betting community gets involved and everyone sitting in a drawing room can bet,” Kumar had said.

Last December, Kumar had pulled up the Indian board for what he described as a “cavalier” and “indifferent” approach towards having an adequately equipped ACSU.

“Not even once can I recall a meeting in which you have chosen to discuss this issue. Not even once have I been asked what the magnitude of the problem is and what needs to be done,” he had written in an email to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Action from the Rajputana Premier League which is being investigated by Rajasthan Police’s CID. Look out for the 2 very wide deliveries bowled in a very close match <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/QuAqKVvVQd">pic.twitter.com/QuAqKVvVQd</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/982239492839911425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Who is the left arm bowler and keeper?

Not sure how a member of the 15 man squad is involved in this
 
Didn't Sreesanth marry some Jaipur royalty?
 
Who is the left arm bowler and keeper?

Not sure how a member of the 15 man squad is involved in this

Can't blame the keeper for that but the bowler should never be allowed to play cricket ever.
 
I guess as long as sports betting remains, so shall corruption. It will never go away
 
I hope that is fake news

Usually the player does fixing for money and the player from 2011 indian squad must have played 2 to 3 session of ipl and have earn very decent money so why should he want to do something like that?
 
I hope that is fake news

Usually the player does fixing for money and the player from 2011 indian squad must have played 2 to 3 session of ipl and have earn very decent money so why should he want to do something like that?

Sreesanth says hello. I bet it's him. He was the member of the 2011 WC, played IPL, got caught and duly banned for life.
 
"It is learnt that the former player had been spotted on the sidelines of the tournament that witnessed bizarre passages of play"

Lol than he is in trouble again

Talk about shoot on foot himself
 
League cricket is a cancer but die hard Pyjama league fans will never accept it. These players meet with unknown people during parties and give them an opportunity to manipulate them. Sharjeel, Khalid and Sreesanth are example of it. BPL also had its own share of match fixing scandals. Pyjama League fans are ready to give credit for anything good that happens to their team but won't accept the bitter truth that these leagues are cancer to cricket.
 
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League cricket is a cancer but die hard Pyjama league fans will never accept it. These players meet with unknown people during parties and give them an opportunity to manipulate them. Sharjeel, Khalid and Sreesanth are example of it. BPL also had its own share of match fixing scandals. Pyjama League fans are ready to give credit for anything good that happens to their team but won't accept the bitter truth that these leagues are cancer to cricket.

There is a lot of education and awareness on fixing and betting. Agree that they come in contact with a lot of people during parties etc but one needs to be responsible. Infact most players are. There are hundreds of players in these leagues around the world and only a handful are convicted.
 
League cricket is a cancer but die hard Pyjama league fans will never accept it. These players meet with unknown people during parties and give them an opportunity to manipulate them. Sharjeel, Khalid and Sreesanth are example of it. BPL also had its own share of match fixing scandals. Pyjama League fans are ready to give credit for anything good that happens to their team but won't accept the bitter truth that these leagues are cancer to cricket.

You are saying as if there has never been fixing in Test cricket and Test cricketers never attended a party during their playing days. No I'm not a fan of the pyjama leagues but your argument that meeting unknown people at parties during those leagues is just lol worthy.
 
League cricket is a cancer but die hard Pyjama league fans will never accept it. These players meet with unknown people during parties and give them an opportunity to manipulate them. Sharjeel, Khalid and Sreesanth are example of it. BPL also had its own share of match fixing scandals. Pyjama League fans are ready to give credit for anything good that happens to their team but won't accept the bitter truth that these leagues are cancer to cricket.

Forget them. For them, a match between Delhi Dakus and Chennai Chamchas is more important than a match involving India.
 
Asif was one of the biggest losses to world cricket. Sreesanth wasn't even in the national team when he was banned.

But Sreesanth had a seam much like Asifs that bowlers cannot create it just happens. Both guys were totally ******** with Asif at least having cricketing intelligence, Sreesanth never even showed that.
 
I guess as long as sports betting remains, so shall corruption. It will never go away

The irony is that where sports betting is illegal, greater levels of fixing take place. Legalising and regulating sports betting is a must if the Asian sides wants to get on top of this issue. But that will never happen.
 
I hope that is fake news

Usually the player does fixing for money and the player from 2011 indian squad must have played 2 to 3 session of ipl and have earn very decent money so why should he want to do something like that?

Greed is a funny thing - several fixers have been very wealthy before they went into fixing. For example, Ajay Jadeja came from a royal family, Azharudhin made millions captaining India, Sreesanth was really rich too after years of IPL contracts and India matches. The same goes for the likes of Cronje, Salman Butt etc.
 
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