No Indians involved

The ICC anti-corruption officials and Nagpur police, both, have given a clean chit to the Indian cricket team in this regard. Even as West Indies cricketer Marlon Samuels and bookmaker Mukesh Kochar were involved in conversations that are being investigated, Deputy Police Commissioner of Police in Nagpur Amitesh Kumar specifically said that “no Indian cricketers are involved in this episode and the issue has been thoroughly investigated.’’

It is in the backdrop of this statement, that the BCCI has also decided to wash their hands off this issue and let the ICC and West Indies board take charge of the proceedings.

BCCI president Sharad Pawar, said at the Kolkata airport (he was leaving station after the first one-dayer was washed out) that all details of the match-fixing had been forwarded to the International Cricket Council headquarters at Dubai for their perusal. “Now it’s their responsibility,” he said, effectively putting the Indian board out of the picture that is getting murkier by the day.

— K Shriniwas Rao at Mumbai and Sudeep Pakrashi at Kolkata