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Life sanctions possible Five Indian cricketers banned from domestic play
BOMBAY, India (AP) -- The Indian cricket board has temporarily banned five cricketers from playing domestic matches because of their alleged involvement in match-fixing, a senior cricket official said. "I have sent Associations letters today that Azharuddin, Jadeja, Ajay Sharma, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar should temporarily not be selected for domestic cricket matches," said Jaywant Lele, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in a telephone interview from the western city of Baroda. Lele said the cricketers would not be selected to play domestic cricket for a period of 10 days, the time it would take for an internal inquiry by the BCCI to be completed. N. Madhavan, retired chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation, India's version of the America's FBI, has been appointed by the Indian cricket board to examine the criminal aspects of the match-fixing allegations. "Once his report is submitted to us, the final decision will be taken," Lele said. Cricketers could then present their side of the story to the board, he said. On Thursday, A.C. Muthiah, president of BCCI, told reporters that the board could consider a life ban on the players. "If Madhavan recommends that the players be banned, we will ban them," said Muthiah. The BCCI finalized a coe of conduct for cricketers and officials in August that detailed severe punishment, including a life ban, if they were found involved in betting and match-fixing. The CBI released the results of its own investigations Wednesday, naming former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin, and teammates Nayan Mongia, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar and Ajay Sharma for underperforming, betting and providing information to bookmakers on the pitch, weather and team strategy in test and one-day international matches. Nine foreign players were also named by a bookmaker whose confessions to the police formed the bulk of the report. The government ordered the CBI probe in April after New Delhi police charged South African captain Hansie Cronje and three other players with match-fixing after secretly monitoring their phones.
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