The Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI, has decided to take strong action against the guilty in the IPL spot fixing case only after receiving the enquiry report from the Delhi Police.

This was stated by BCCI Chief N. Srinivasan to the media after the emergency meeting of the Board in Chennai on Sunday. He said that the Board has appointed its anti-corruption chief Ravi Sawani as the Commissioner of Inquiry who has been asked to file the internal inquiry report soon to enable a decision on the issue.

Replying to a query on corruption, the BCCI chief said the Board will appoint anti-corruption officer with each of the IPL franchises along with a security officer to monitor movements of players.

He hoped that the Working Committee would decide to take players only from accredited agents.

Srinivasan explained that the Board did not have resources and it was not a law enforcing agency to tackle all bookies but said that they could monitor only the players.

He said that BCCI would provide all assistance in this regard.
Srinivasan added that BCCI itself cannot lodge a complaint against the players who have been caught for alleged spot fixing, but said that the franchisee Rajasthan Royals had intimated the Board that they would file a criminal complaint against the accused.

He said that it was only the individual players who were involved in the act.
The BCCI chief denied that there was any warning by the ICC ACSU on the issue and said that the information was incorrect.

The BCCI Chief said that the players would be educated on the disciplinary rules well before signing of the contract.

AIR correspondent reports, though for the past two days, arrests and news of spot fixing has been taking the centre stage in IPL, cricket lovers continued support for the game by presenting themselves in the stadium in large numbers was a consoling fact for the BCCI. Acknowledging this fact, today’s gesture of the board that it is in control of the activities and also the pledge to take strict action against the guilty player s has provided an assurance that cricket is a gentlemen’s game.

The IPL season this year did not have to end like this was a statement reverberating the air on Saturday but today’s assurance that the Board would take forward the fair practices ideals is set to fix up the patches, because cricket is considered a religion and has scores of followers around.