da 888casino： Welcoming the support from the International Cricket Council (ICC),the CBI on Sunday said it would soon send a team to London to gatherinformation from the world body on the cricket telecast rights caseand other matters arising out of the
Staff and Agencies11-Jun-2001* CBI to send team to London to probe telecast rights caseWelcoming the support from the International Cricket Council (ICC),the CBI on Sunday said it would soon send a team to London to gatherinformation from the world body on the cricket telecast rights caseand other matters arising out of the match-fixing scandal.”We would be soon sending a team to London and the support from ICC isimportant for us as some of their officials have also been named intwo of the cases,” CBI spokesman SM Khan told reporters in New Delhion Sunday. He said the agency was always in touch with the anticorruption branch of ICC and looked forward to any support from themwhich was very crucial to the investigation into the telecast rightscase.The CBI on November 8 registered five cases against some Doordarshanofficials for allegedly cheating the Prasar Bharti of crores of rupeesin the award of telecast rights for cricket matches. The five casesrelate to alleged bunglings in telecast rights for 1997 IndependenceCup, ICC KnockOut tournament in 1998 played in Dhaka and the World Cupin 1999. The CBI alleged that some officials of Doordarshan hadentered into a criminal conspiracy with the Bangalore-based WorldTeland Delhi-based Stracon India and dishonestly enhanced the bid for thetelecast of the tournament. Referring to the alleged nexus betweenbetting syndicates and underworld, the spokesman said “we are stilllooking into whether there is any link between match-fixing syndicateand organised crime syndicate in the country and abroad.”* Gayatri Arts files appeal against BCCI’s decisionA Mumbai-based company has filed an appeal against a High Court orderrefusing to stay the decision of the Board to award a three-yearcontract for clothing sponsorship of Indian team in internationalmatches to International Management Group and Transworld Internationalcombine (IMG-TWI).The appeal was filed by proprietor of Gayatri Arts Sham Dhumatkar onSaturday in the Mumbai High Court and is likely to be heard within aweek. Gayatri Arts had challenged BCCI’s decision to award a contractto IMG-TWI by way of a petition in the High Court. The company claimedthat it had made the highest bid of Rs 90 crore through a legal tenderadvertised by BCCI in a newspaper. Yet, the contract was awarded tothe IMG-TWI combine.Justice DK Deshmukh, hearing the petition, had, in an ad-interimorder, refused to stay BCCI’s decision. Gayatri Arts filed an appealcontending that the Judge had failed to take cognizance of the bidmade by it which was higher than the one put up by IMG-TWI. Hence theaward of contract to IMG-TWI was bad in law, improper and unjustified.* Nehra disappointed at ban for encroaching on wicketIndia’s left-arm paceman Ashish Nehra, in the centre of a controversyafter being disqualified for running onto the pitch on the third dayof the first Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on Saturday, wasdisappointed at the turn of events but vowed to come back strongerfrom the experience. “I bowled the way I had in the first innings. Iam disappointed,” said the paceman from Delhi.Nehra was first given two official warnings by Zimbabwean umpireRussell Tiffin and several unofficial warnings by Australian umpireDaryl Harper. When he changed ends, he was first warned and thenstopped from bowling by umpire Harper who gave him his cap and sweaterafter he had bowled just four balls and told him he could no longerbowl in the innings.Zimbabwe were then 273 for seven and Nehra was in his 27th over. Teammanager Chetan Chauhan said he was very disappointed at the turn ofevents. “He was our main bowler and bowled very well in this game. Butwe respect the umpire’s decision and though he was not able to bowlagain in this match, we will try to rectify the mistake in the nextthree-four days.” Nehra bowled 11 overs in the first innings andpicked up three wickets for 23 runs and took two more conceding 77runs in the second before he was stopped while bowling his 27th over.Dave Houghton, former Zimbabwean captain said if the idea was tocreate a rough for Harbhajan Singh, the bowling action of Nehra wasunsuited for it. “I can understand a team playing two left-arm pacemento create rough for the spinners. But Nehra was coming too close tothe wicket. His footmarks on the wicket were not going to help anoffspinner.”