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  1. SJS

    **Official** Indian Premier League 2013

    You are probably right. By the way, the IPL valuations are a bit of a scam. The Franchisees have lost money in IPL overall. The valuation of individual Franchise is being disputed by them as in the case of Sahara recently who were made to take it for four times what the initial Franchisees had...
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Yes you are right. It is very depressing which is why people like myself are so worked up . . . it is our own helplessness to do anything about it that hurts the most. There is no one, no one at all, amongst those one could normally expect results from to look up to. The BCCI we all know so we...
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    IPL hurting the international game

    It hurts the Indian game first and foremost . . . "IPL youngsters return to glamour-less Ranji and get confused" Wasim Jaffer talking to Bharat Sundaresan of Indian Express Many of these young guys have never been exposed to the kind of lifestyle they witness during the IPL. Few of them have...
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    :)
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Corruption in IPL The mess in the message As the game unravels outside, India's cricket bosses play defiant and dumb Sharda Ugra May 25, 2013 The most emphatic, definitive piece of news on this day before the final was BCCI president N Srinivasan telling a scrum of reporters wherever he went...
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    The Sreesanth Appreciation Society

    A very sad tale . . . It is poignant and very sad and makes one think of him as a victim more than culprit . . . and it may very well be something in between . . . Friends, cricket and a stray ball Nihal Koshie Indian Express 26th May 2013 Temperamental, gullible, a mentor to juniors, a...
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    IPL hurting the international game

    It hurts Indian cricket first and foremost . . . There are some genuine problems associated with the IPL culture which many tend to brush under the carpet. Today, in the Indian Express, there is a riveting piece on one such issue that affects the first class game in India. HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS...
  8. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    That's quite possible in our country. All the more reason for the public pressure, manifested through the electronic media, must be kept up. The only thing that will force the others in BCCI to act is the heat they feel from public and media. But you are quite right we could have one set of...
  9. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Regarding CSK, it is widely felt that it would be highly inappropriate to have a team whose principal and clearly senior management person ( he bought the players in the auction besides everything else) to play in the finals and maybe go on to lift the cup. Even if they pick up the runners up...
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    HB, the main thrust of the call for Srinivasan to go is not based on even a suggestion of any wrong-doing by him personally but on two other grounds. First a ground of morality and propriety since this has happened in his watch, CSK is a team owned by him and Guru is his son-in-law. The second...
  11. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    First match was fixed, then Gurunath Meiyappan placed huge bets, say police Gurunath Meiyappan, head of the Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan, used to place "huge bets" on IPL matches after fixing the game, Mumbai Police on Saturday told a metropolitan court which...
  12. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Just to clarify, the "Really???" In that first post was to express incredulous dis belief at the rumour the channel was letting out. It is interesting how the Hindi language channels are much more full of rumour- mongering than the English channels even when both are from the same management and...
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Indian TV channel IBN 7
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Dhoni may not play on Sunday Dhoni may be suspended Really ???
  15. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Bookie Mohd Yahya has named four more InternationAl cricketers. Police working on verifying this. Guru used forged documents to buy number of mobile phones Bookies from India, Pakistan and Dubai were frequently on video conferencing which was recorded to ensure no one backed out or claimed...
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    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Coming out from Guru's interrogation room . . . - He has been betting on IPL for at least last two years. - the bets he placed were in the denominations of Rs five, ten and twenty lakhs. A lakh is 100,000. - he placed bets on his own team as well as others. He lost Rs ten million this edition...
  17. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Did I say that ? I do not think it will. I hope it does but I doubt it. There is no one who has the interest of the game at heart so nothing will happen. Of course the corrupt should go. Of course the match fixers should be punished and of course the bookies should be prosecuted since it is an...
  18. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    It may be so but Pawar alone won't be able to swing it. There are others whose voices count as well. The most important factor that goes against Srinivasan is the anti-corruption sentiment in the country today. All opposition parties, particularly the major ones are beating rivals with this...
  19. SJS

    IPL Spot Fixing Scandal

    Of course there are rivalries in BCCI. Everyone knows that. Lalit Modi too had his backers even after the s&£@ hit the ceiling. But let's not even give the whiff of the suggestion that this entire scandal and expose by the cops in two states is somehow a drama staged by Srinivasan's opponents in...
  20. SJS

    IPL hurting the international game

    That was nearly four years ago. Today do we need to ask the question in the thread title ?

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