New Delhi: The Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday had given a clean chit to Indian Cricketer Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja in the charges of betting links in Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2013.
Anurag Thakur, Secretary of BCCI said it was jurisdiction of the ICC to probe against the players alleged by Lalit Modi of have betting connections.
Thakur went on to say that ICC had not passed any information about or against the two CSK players regarding this matter.
Meanwhile BCCI did not carried out any independent inquiry into the matter, Thakur made it clear that players had a clean chit from BCCI until ICC inquiry revealed the truth regarding the allegations made by Modi.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday acknowledged having received former cricket administrator Lalit Modi’s confidential e-mail — in which he accused three international players of being involved in betting — and sharing it with the Indian cricket board’s anti-corruption unit.
Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi alleged on Saturday that Indian cricketers Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and West Indian Dwayne Bravo had taken bribes from a bookie who was also a builder. The three are all members of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings.
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