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Shashank Manohar,
the former BCCI president, has called for an investigation by an
external investigation agency of all the IPL 2013 matches. Manohar said
the BCCI should not solely depend on the board's and the ICC's
Anit-Corruption and Security Units (ACSU) to keep cricket clean as they
do not have the authority to track illegal activities - tracking phone
conversations, for example.
"The BCCI should immediately file a criminal complaint with the
investigating agencies, urging them to probe all 75 games [76] in the
current IPL edition," Manohar told the Times of India. "The board
should provide them [the investigating agency] with a raw feed of the
games as well as CCTV footage recorded at every venue.
"It has to deal with this menace with an iron fist. The board or ACSU do
not have any machinery or legal authority to track the illegal
activities, so it should not depend on these agencies alone."
His comments come in wake of the alleged spot-fixing in IPL 2013, in
relation to which three Rajasthan Royals cricketers were arrested on May
16. The controversy has since grown, with top Chennai Super Kings
official Gurunath Meiyappan being arrested for allegedly betting on IPL
games, and his father-in-law - who is also the BCCI president and
managing director Super Kings' owner, India Cements - N Srinivasan
refusing to resign from his post with the Indian board despite mounting
pressure to do so.
Manohar said in an earlier interview with the Telegraph that he
had spoken to some of the BCCI officials before their emergent working
committee meeting on May 19, and told them if they wanted "to clean
things up, then do it thoroughly. If, at the end of it all, 13 and not
three players are involved in fixing, so be it".
Apart from making sure the IPL is clean, now Manohar said it's important
to have stringent processes in place for international cricket played
in India too. "The board should approach the central home minister,
requesting governmental support in investigating the criminal actions in
any event run by the BCCI, which would also include international
fixtures. It should request [the minister] to send an advisory to all
states one month before the start of an event, so that the investigating
machinery can swing in action well in advance to prevent any
match-fixing , betting or spot-fixing."
The BCCI, he said, should ask players to register their mobile-phone
numbers with the board, so that the investigating agencies could monitor
things with more efficiency.
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