Suresh Raina seen with alleged bookmaker's aide
According to the Sunday Times, the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit has decided to investigate why the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) did not reveal
the report that its cricketer Suresh Raina was seen in the company of a woman associated with an illegal bookmaker.
The Sunday Times said that while Raina was not involved in any transgression, the ICC had decided to investigate BCCI’s role in the issue.
The incident is said to have occurred earlier this year when the Indian team was on the tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758. The Sri Lankan cricket board, shaken after their team had been involved in terrorist attacks last
year, had installed CCTV cameras. These CCTV cameras have shown Raina to be hobnobbing with a lady who is said to be a bookmaker’s aide.
It reported that the Sri Lankan cricket board had then handed this video over to the BCCI. However, the BCCI secretary N Srinivasan had not acted upon it – instead, asking the Lankan board to withdraw any
case. Raina is a part of the Chennai Super Kings team, owned by Srinivasan.
According to the report, the probe will attempt to throw light on why the Lankan board approached BCCI when it should have directly provided the report to the ICC.
The player-agent nexus had been exposed in August this year when three http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, where suspended after there were allegations that they had accepted
bribes from their agent, in return for bowling no-balls at pre-decided times during a game.
Earlier, the buzz was that it was during the IPL that the spot-fixing and match-fixing allegations had raised its ugly head. The first two seasons of the IPL were not manned by the ICC’s ACSU but the BCCI
had decided to take help from the ACSU for the third season this year.
Neither the BCCI secretary Srinivasan nor the ICC decided to comment on the issue.
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