Police have been investigating a former India 2011 Winning team member for his links to a match-fixing syndicate. Police has claimed that the former cricketer was a part of India’s 2011 World Cup winning squad. The incident is associated to the Rajputana Premier League (RPL), which was organized at Jaipur in last July.
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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. Neo Sports was the official broadcaster of the tournament.
It is attained that the former player had been spotted on the sidelines of the tournament that witnessed unusual 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.
According to The Indian Express ” The Rajasthan Police has found that the mastermind of the “organized cricket racket” who partly bankrolled the RPL and had business links with a “former international player who represented India in all three formats of the game“.
Additional DGP CID (Crime) Pankaj Kumar Singh was quoted “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.
They said the case is likely to turn “high profile”. However, Singh refused to divulge the identity and details of the cricketer involved in the investigation.
It also said that the police had arrested 14 persons, including six players, for their involvement in match-fixing during the tournament. These included the masterminds Wazir Ali and Bahare Khan.
“Both Ali and Khan would constantly be communicating with bookies in different places and would fix the matches according to instructions received by them,” deputy commissioner of police (crime) Vikas Pathak had said.
“We have learned that on a cricket match that took place on 19 July, the match was deliberately fixed and eventually tied because the bookies had sustained losses and the outcome of a tie the losses were recovered,” said Pathak.
(With Indian Express inputs)
