<div class="img-caption-wrap img-caption-wrap-left "> <img src="https://st3.cricketcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/cricket/d78836080d0619124cb44e27db88de7a.jpeg" title="Modi backs magazine's claims of match-fixing" alt="Modi backs magazine's claims of match-fixing" /><p class="imgcaption"> Lalit Modi, the former chairman and commissioner of Indian Premier League during the IPL Auction 2010. Getty Images</p> </div><p> </p><p></p><p><strong>New Delhi: May 11, 2011 </strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>A few days after raging a controversy over the Jaipur pitch, former Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi has once again hogged the limelight by backing an investigation by a magazine, <em>Sports Illustrated</em> into rampant spot-fixing in the subcontinent.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The magazine has claimed that the second edition of the IPL, which was held in South Africa and some of the matches in the recently-concluded World Cup were fixed by a sophisticated bookmaker network.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>"Some of the incidents described are factual. Quite an accurate story. Well researched I must say," Modi wrote in his twitter page yesterday.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Modi had earlier raised a controversy by suggesting that the change of pitch for the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings in Jaipur had been done at the behest of BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> PTI</p>
