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, Sports Illustrated into rampant spot-fixing in the subcontinent.
Published: May 11, 2011, 04:31 PM (IST)
Edited: May 11, 2011, 04:31 PM (IST)
Lalit Modi, the former chairman and commissioner of Indian Premier League during the IPL Auction 2010. © Getty Images
New Delhi: May 11, 2011
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, Sports Illustrated into rampant spot-fixing in the subcontinent.
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.
“Some of the incidents described are factual. Quite an accurate story. Well researched I must say,” Modi wrote in his twitter page yesterday.
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.
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