Cricketer S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan on Friday handed life ban for IPL spot-fixing. Amit Singh banned for five years, while Siddharth Trivedi got banned for one year. Harmeet Singh has been excused, while a decision of Ajit Chandila will be taken later. An internal probe conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India found, Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan guilty on multiple accounts, including conceding a “pre-determined number of runs per over in exchange for bribes.

Amit Singh, who played in the IPL till last year, was seen as the conduit between the cricketers and bookies.