LONDON: India should legalise betting to stamp out corruption in cricket, says former England captain Geoffrey Boycott who feels the menace of fixing, which has currently dented the IPL’s reputation, emerges more frequently in the Asian countries.

“The way to stop it altogether, except for the odd one — but we’re [...]

MUMBAI: Talk about an umpire being declared out. On Thursday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) sacked Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf from the Champions Trophy scheduled in England next month. The sacking of the ICC’s elite panel umpire comes a day after TOI quoted Mumbai police sources as saying [...]

MUMBAI: Mumbai Police have found phone call logs linking Dara Singh’s actor son Vindu – who was arrested here on Tuesday – with a close relative of a powerful IPL franchise owner who wields enormous clout in the world of cricket.

Vindu Dara Singh, 49, was picked up after [...]

KARACHI: Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez is all geared up for the upcoming Champions Trophy clash against India, and said any encounter between the traditional rivals on the cricketing field is “always very special”.

Hafeez told Pakistani reporters in Ireland, where the team is preparing for a One-Day series against [...]

MUMBAI: Probing deeper into the IPL spot-match fixing scam, Mumbai Police have seized the mobiles, iPhones, laptops, data cards and other personal belongings of cricketer S Sreesanth and his relative-cum-bookie Jiju Janardhan, a top police officer said on Saturday.

Besides, the Mumbai Police are also scanning the [...]

NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said.

“Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation,” a Delhi Police official said.

Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet Chavan [...]

NEW DELHI: Was ICC apprehensive of bookies playing a major role in IPL 6? While the crime branch confirmed on Thursday that it had inputs of “suspected” movement at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium as early as April, former cricketer Kirti Azad claimed that the Delhi and District Cricket [...]

NEW DELHI: The criminal case registered by the Delhi police on Thursday against three cricketers for alleged “spot fixing” in IPL matches stands a good chance of yielding the first ever conviction in India for a sporting crime.

This is because the case against Sreesanth and his two teammates from [...]

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The mastermind of the cricket betting syndicate is said to be a Dubai-based Dawood Ibrahim man named Sunil Ramchandani alias Sunil Dubai while the principal bookie referred to as ‘Jupiter’ in phone intercepts is a person called Chandresh. He is reportedly close to several politicians, builders [...]

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The mastermind of the cricket betting syndicate is said to be a Dubai-based Dawood Ibrahim man named Sunil Ramchandani alias Sunil Dubai while the principal bookie referred to as ‘Jupiter’ in phone intercepts is a person called Chandresh. He is reportedly close to several politicians, builders [...]