/ 16 April 2000

‘THREE INDIAN PLAPYER PLACED BETS’

THREE Indian cricketers admitted placing bets on a match in England a few years ago, a former head of India’s cricket control board said on Sunday. “When confronted by me they admitted they were placing small bets on matches at a legal betting place in England,” Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board for Cricket Control in India. Bindra, who headed the board between 1993 to 1996, would not name the players involved in the betting which he said was on a match where India was not playing. “Even though there was no ICC code of conduct or any code by the BCCI, they were given a stern warning,” he said. Former South African captain Hansie Cronje and three other players have been charged by Indian police with fixing matches during a limited over series in India last month. Bindra said during his term as BCCI head action was also taken against two Indian players who did not try hard enough in an international fixture in the northern city of Kanpur.

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