Lalit Modi claims umpires and administrators too fix matches – Cricket News Update
The suspended IPL commissioner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lalit-Kumar-Modi-c72144, on Tuesday claimed that the umpires and administrators of the game also fix matches at the International level.
Soon after the Southwark Crown Court in London declared two Pakistan players - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Asif-c1993 and Salman Butt - guilty of spot-fixing, Modi wrote on his Twitter page that it’s not only players that fix matches, rather match officials also fix games.
"It's not only players that fix matches - Sometimes there are Umpires too in connivance with Administrators. Again.. these reports are buried," stated Modi on a micro-blogging website.
A 12-member jury of Southwark Crown Court on spot-fixing, after 16 hours and 56 minutes of debate, found Butt and Asif guilty of charges of “conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt money, levelled against them by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of Britain.
10 out of the 12 jury members voted against the accused Pakistan cricketers while two voted in their favour.
"It is worst form of corruption. It makes everything else look Pale,” tweeted http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Modi-c76470. "People remotely assisting - match / Spot Fixing or People Preventing the information from coming out are equally to blame for this menace," he added further.
The former Indian Premier League chairman was suspended from the coveted role soon after the conclusion of the third edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) in April last year.
The discarded IPL chairman asked for severe punishments for those who have been found guilty of match fixing or spot fixing.
"Persons involved in fixing should be completely banned from participating any kind of professional sport,” said Modi, who himself has been accused of financial irregularities by the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
"Cricket authorities must have a zero tolerance for spot- fixing. Problem is that quantum of betting has jumped - with no checks and reporting," he added further.
The spot fixing saga goes back to August 2010, when three http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Lord’s.
The trio has already been handed bans from all forms of cricket by an http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 tribunal in February this year.
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