ICC SUSPENDS INDIAN CURATOR FOR CORRUPTION
ICC suspends Indain Pune curator Pandurang Salgaoncar for six months |
Cricket's world governing
body on Tuesday banned a leading Indian groundsman for six months for failing
to report a corruption approach before a one-day international last year.
Pandurang
Salgaonkar, who looks after the ground at Pune, was the subject of an
undercover sting by the India Today TV channel, which alleged he agreed to
doctor the surface before a one-day international between India and New Zealand
in October 2017.
"Salgaonkar was
charged with a failure to report an approach but no evidence was found of him
actually having been engaged in corruption and therefore no charges were laid
against him on that basis," said an International Cricket Council
statement.
The ICC decision
said there was no evidence that the 68-year-old former player had agreed to
accept a bribe when he met the journalists.
ICC anti-corruption
manager Alex Marshall said, "I am satisfied that Mr. Salgaonkar has no
case to answer on the broad allegations of corruption made by India
Today."
"Mr Salgaonkar
has accepted that he has committed the offence and has received a six-month
suspension."
The ban was
backdated to October 25, meaning he will be free to work again on April 24.
The Board of Control
for Cricket in India suspended Salgaonkar after the TV channel showed him
promising a favourable wicket for New Zealand to reporters who posed as
bookmakers.
SOURCE: AFP
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