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This is an archive article published on December 15, 1997

Prabhakar flays Chandrachud report

NEW DELHI, DEC 14: Cricketer Manoj Prabhakar today alleged justice Y V Chandrachud's report on betting and match- fixing in Indian cricket ...

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NEW DELHI, DEC 14: Cricketer Manoj Prabhakar today alleged justice Y V Chandrachud’s report on betting and match- fixing in Indian cricket was “factually incorrect and with little regard to the truth” and that he was not even “asked to name the player who offered him money to throw a match.”

Mocking the one-man commission instituted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to probe his charges of match-fixing, Prabhakar said: “In my 45-minute session with the judge, he only asked me two questions — Does match-fixing go on; and are Indian cricketers involved in heavy betting?

“Not once was I asked to name the cricketer who offered me money to throw a match. Most of the interview was spent discussing very general stuff, including my bowling.”

Justice Chandrachud, who had come to the conclusion that the charges were baseless and made because the all-rounder was “a frustrated cricketer and frustrated politician” had got his `facts wrong’ and that betting and match-fixing was very much there in international cricket, Prabhakar was quoted by an NDTV release as having said.

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