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As T20 fever sweeps the country, with the Indian Premier League season 16 in full swing, various instances of betting have emerged from throughout the country. Recently, a gambler from Hyderabad allegedly called cricketer Mohammed Siraj in order to recoup his gambling losses.
According to The New Indian Express, the driver requested some insider knowledge on Team India from Siraj before Australia arrived on Indian territory for the full-fledged visit. The bowler reported the incident to the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) prior to the tour.
According to reports, the information promptly provide to cyber police. Who worked closely with BCCI and ACU to apprehend the individual. The accused called Siraj and begged for his assistance in making money through betting. According to a BCCI source, the individual not a bookie and instead work as a driver in Hyderabad.
“He wasn’t approach by a bookie. It is a Hyderabadi motorist who is addict to sports betting. He’d lost a lot of money and was looking for inside information from Siraj. Siraj promptly reported the approach. The man has been apprehend by law enforcement. More information is anticipate, according to a top BCCI source.
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BCCI has reinforced its ACU unit after the spot-fixing scandal of 2013
Since the 2013 IPL spot-fixing controversy, in which S Sreesanth. Ankit Chavan, and Ajit Chandila were arrested alongside former CSK team principal Gurunath Meiyappan, the BCCI has strengthen its ACU work.
Each team now gets a dedicated ACU official who stays at the same hotel and monitors all moves on the ground. A obligatory ACU session is also held for players. During which they are instructed about do’s and don’ts, and any player who fails to report any approach is sanction.
Notably, Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan bar from playing any form of cricket in 2019 for a year by the International Cricket Council’s ACU after failing to report an approach from a bookie during his IPL tenure in 2018 as well as the Tri-Series in Zimbabwe same year.
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