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Probe implicates BCCI chief’s relative in fixing scandal: report

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indiaNEW DELHI: The newly-elected boss of world cricket N. Srinivasan suffered a blow on Monday when an Indian Supreme Court panel probing a match-fixing scandal said his son-in-law was guilty of illegal betting on games.

After an extensive probe, the three-member panel also said allegations of match-fixing against Gurunath Meiyappan during the Indian Premier League required further investigation, the Press Trust of India reported.

The panel, headed by retired judge Mukul Mudgal, suggested that Meiyappan may have passed on information to outsiders for betting during the Twenty20 competition, the news agency said.

Meiyappan was the team principal of Chennai Super Kings, an IPL franchise owned by Srinivasan’s India Cements company and captained by national skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The court had appointed the panel on October 8 to investigate the scandal that rocked the popular tournament run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) last year.

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday removed Zaka Ashraf as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday removed Zaka Ashraf as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, appointing an 11-member ad-hoc committee to run the affairs of the PCB.  Islamabad Cricket Association president Shakil Shaikh, who is also one of the members, said Ashraf was removed because of “mishandling Pakistan’s case in the recent changes brought in the ICC.”Ashraf returned home early on Monday from Singapore after attending the ICC Board meeting. He said he had made several attempts to seek the prime minister’s views on the changes in the ICC before going to Singapore, including writing a letter, but could not succeed in meeting with Sharif.

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