Mumbai: The glamorous event of Indian Premier League (IPL) seemed to be in trouble after India TV sting blows the lid off murky deals among players, organizers, owners, foreign captain and big guns of Indian cricket.
Many IPL players confessed on hidden camera that they get much more than their prescribed auction amount under the table as black money.
Shockingly, it was also revealed that superstars of Indian cricket and even an international player, who is a captain of one of the teams, are involved in fixing the matches. Some team owners too are allegedly involved.
Some players even disclosed that they attempt to negotiate a larger financial contract with some of the other IPL franchises that is a serious non-adherence to the IPL player guidelines. Once deal is finalized the players are paid under the table.
The governing council of Indian Premier League earlier had imposed a one-year ban on Ravindra Jadeja and four-match ban on Manish Pandey for negotiating with other team owners for a larger financial contract.
India TV sting also revealed that spot-fixing is not only prevalent in IPL but First class matches are also fixed and beautiful ladies played an important role in match-fixing.
T Sudhindra, one of the Deccan Chargers player, had bowled a no-ball in last year’s first class match on India TV reporter’s insistence. He also assured to change his team in future if he was paid Rs. 60 lakhs.
Kings XI Punjab player Shalabh Srivastava demanded Rs. 10 lakh for bowling a no-ball in a IPL match.
Mohnish Mishra, playing for Pune Warriors India, confessed that he was getting 1.45 crore from its owner Sahara whereas he was in the 30 lakh slab. According to BCCI guidelines uncapped players were not to get more than Rs. 30 lakh.
There were many more other revelations in the sting operation that probably for the first time in cricketing history, senior and junior cricketers playing in rival teams jointly fixed the outcome of matches.
A clear pattern has supposedly emerged where a particular bowler has bowled easy deliveries and dropped catches, while his ‘partner in crime’ went on a scoring spree.
On the other hand, the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) vowed, on Monday, to take stringent action against any players found guilty of being involved in spot-fixing.
“We will ensure that the integrity of the game is protected. BCCI believes in the integrity of the game. We will take the strictest possible action,” BCCI chief N Srinivasan was quoted as saying by The Times of India.
Srinivasan said the BCCI will view the videos and take action accordingly, claiming that the league was free of corruption.
“IPL, we believe is clean,” he added.
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