Cricket

It seems the BCCI had sniffed spot-fixing in T20 matches because of which a team of the apex cricket body had approached Jaipur city police during the first week of May after the police busted a cartel of bookies. Rashpal Singh reports.

Unfazed by the T20 spot-fixing scandal, the event's chairman Rajeev Shukla today insisted that the Twenty20 tournament will "go on", saying the only way to cleanse cricket is to "weed out corrupt elements" from the game.

The three cricketers arrested in connection with the T20 spot-fixing scandal were interrogated together for the first time by police which said the case is still "open-ended".

Kings XI Punjab defeated Mumbai Indians by 50 runs in the T20 league match in Dharamsala today. Earlier, Azhar Mahmood and Shaun Marsh smashed a half century each and rescued Kings XI Punjab from a disastrous start.

Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid is extremely content with the way his players performed against Sunrisers Hyderabad following the shock spot-fixing scandal that engulfed his team.

Three Rajasthan Royal players arrested for alleged spot-fixing in the T20 League will be questioned for the second time by the Delhi Police today.

BCCI president N Srinivasan today said he has not ruled out filing a criminal complaint against the arrested "dirty cricketers," insisting that no one is hurt more than he is because of the crisis.

The Mumbai Police today said that they had raided a five star hotel and searched the rooms independently booked in name of Sreesanth and Jiju Janardhan in the city and found laptop, ipad, mobile and diary which appeared to be of the cricketer.

A six-member team of Delhi Police's Special Cell today raided tainted cricketer Ajit Chandila's Prahladpur residence for further clues on spot-fixing issue that has lead to crickter's arrest.

Delhi Police today dispatched teams to Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Hyderabad to track the money trail in the T20 spot-fixing case even as it conducted raids for the second time at the Faridabad residence of Ajit Chandila, one of the three arrested cricketers.

In fresh trouble for pacer Sreesanth, Mumbai Police's crime branch may book him in a spot-fixing case registered by it and seek his custodial interrogation, Joint Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said today.

Arrested on charges of spot-fixing in the Indian T20 League, pacer S Sreesanth on Saturday requested a city court to direct the Delhi Police to give him a copy of the FIR registered against him and 13 others in connection with the scandal.

With Mumbai needing 51 off the last over, Adam Gilchrist decided to bowl an over. And, he just needed one ball to warp up the match — Harbhajan Singh’s slog found Gurkeerat Mann at long on. Ashutosh Sharma reports.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is set to interrogate Rajasthan Royals' English recruit Owais Shah as a precautionary measure in the wake of the recent spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the ongoing T20 League.