BCCI correct to suspend under-suspicion players: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863 – Cricket News Update
Sunil Gavaskar, former Indian batsman turned cricket commentator, has expressed his approval of the BCCI’s decision to suspend the 5 IPL players currently under suspicion for spot-fixing and accepting bribes.
“Yes, it was correct to suspend them. That's the least they could have done,” he said.
The Indian Premier League tournament recently came under the radar for allegations of behind-the-scenes corruption. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 TV, an Indian channel, carried out a sting operation which revealed that players currently associated with the tournament were willing
to accept bribes and engage in spot-fixing.
Footage revealed a player negotiating an amount for agreeing to bowl a deliberate no-ball, while 3 players, while speaking to a news reporter disguised as a sports agent, agreed to accept bribes from other from other franchises in the league – a direct violation
of their IPL contracts.
Five uncapped players were pinpointed by the TV channel: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abhinav-Bali-c41754. Following a lengthy meeting between BCCI officials
and the IPL’s Governing Council, during which the footage was analysed, all five players were suspended till the inquiry being conducted into the allegations (with the committee being headed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RD-Shah-c2298 Sawani, the former chief of the ICC’s anti-corruption and
security unit)could be completed.
“You don't need players who are even contemplating doing the things that they have allegedly done. You need to ban them not just from IPL but ban them till the inquiry is complete,” Gavaskar said while in conversation with
NDTV.
Batsman Mohnish Mishra was also issued a ban by the Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 confirming that the player (who had played just one match for the team this season) would not be taking any further part in the tournament. Mishra went on to issue
an apology and defended himself, stating that he had only made the comments in order to increase his “value”.
Kings XI http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833’s Shalabh Srivastava however, spoke out against allegations that the voice in the audio clip agreeing to bowl a no-ball was his. He insisted that he was begin framed and would fight to clear his name, adding that he had obtained the Kings
XI team management’s support in this regard.
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