NEW DELHI: Two top officials of the cricket board quit yesterday over an escalating spot-fixing scandal, reports said.
Sanjay Jagdale, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and treasurer Ajay Shirke submitted their resignations to the board president, the NDTV news network and other channels said.
“I don’t want to give any reason, I have sent my resignation to the BCCI president,” Jagdale was quoted as saying by NDTV.
The resignations of Jagdale, the number two in the board hierarchy, and Shirke were likely to pile on more pressure on president N Srinivasan to quit.
Srinivasan has been under fire to resign after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested last week for allegedly betting on Indian Premier League (IPL) matches.
Meiyappan, an executive at the Chennai Super Kings IPL team, owned by Srinivasan’s group India Cements, is being probed by a three-member BCCI commission.
Meiyappan’s arrest came after Test paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two teammates in his IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals — Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila — were taken into custody.
Earlier yesterday, Siddharth Trivedi, a paceman with Rajasthan Royals franchise, testified before a judge in a New Delhi court in the case against his teammates.
“His statement is important because he has told us he has information on some of the bookies arrested by us,” a police officer who is part of the investigating team, said on condition of anonymity.
AFP
