Indian bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth practices during a training session at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on January 1, 2011 on the eve of the third test between South Africa and India. PHOTO: AFP
Sreesanth, 30, was arrested by Delhi police in Mumbai along with fellow bowlers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila on charges of spot-fixing, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said.
The arrests were made at a hotel where the team was staying after a match on Wednesday night against the Mumbai Indians. All of them play for the Rajasthan Royals and a statement from the team confirmed that three of their players had been called in for investigation over spot-fixing charges, without confirming their identities.
“We are completely taken in by surprise... we will fully co-operate with the authorities to ensure a thorough investigation,” said the statement.
There was no immediate confirmation of the report from the police.
Sreesanth, who played the last of his 27 Tests against England two years ago, is no stranger to controversy, and was famously slapped by his teammate Harbhajan Singh during a match in 2008.
Sreesanth has also played 53 one-day internationals.
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@SK5: you can earn bucket loads and spend bucket loads too.
IPL (Illegal Premier League) should be banned..... No cricketing countries are "CLEAN" as far as fixing is concerned.
I thought these players were earning bucket loads, they have no need to fix?, haha.
@Jim:
"The best part of this story is the Indian police arrested them and the Indian courts will prosecute them. The Indian system works, however faultily."
I laugh at your naivety.
Indian system works!! Yes. In India we take a corrupt cricketer and turn him into a succesful politician. In India we take a corrupt cricketer and turn him into a celebrity on TV, asking his opinion.
I, in fact, pity you that you believe that Indian system works. If BCCI is not protecting corrupt/arrogant spilt brats of cricketers at the top level, India should seek a new playing 11 every 6 months. Many of the new generation cricketers are corrupt and are involved in match fixing. What happened to Raina?
The best part of this story is the Indian police arrested them and the Indian courts will prosecute them. The Indian system works, however faultily. There are some countries where there would have been denial, fudging, conspiracy theories, and attributing it to machinations of jews, hindus etc. That is why one country is seen as a success, however spotty, and another is seen as an abject failure.
@Vikram: but the evil practice exists in both the countries... my point is we should refrain from holier than thou attitude in our comments.
@to all indian basher- just tell me one moment wer ur police has arrested any cricketer for any illegal thing..instead u conspiracy theory lover cried aginst england wen your trio were arrested in london....i just remember how much confidence u had in ur team when ur interior minister said he is keeping watch on ur team before mohali semi finals...
@asif butt neither i m ignorant nor i wnt a lecture from u whose country has been the epicentre of everywrong thing...if ipl is bad why your players crave for it..remember how u cried for conspiracy when u wer not selected in auction..why azhar mehmood ,ramiz raza are there in ipl which according to u is not gud fr cricket.... i just read in et a column which says "salman butt and asif will be allowed to play after their ban" shows how you ppl treat bad eggs...
All Indian players are innocent, please release all of them. Spot fixing is an Indian recipe come on!!
First Edition of IPL was fixed ,said No Pakistani ever ;)
@John: apparently pakistanis
whining about why their players did not get selected in IPL
@kash: "no excuses, ICC should take notice of the situation and ban them all."
Excuses? Who is making excuses? It is Indians themselves who caught this and are investigating - bot a foreign country. Also their team is co-operating not like your PCB chief who made counter accusations against English team which he was forced to retract and apologize for.
The need for ICC to take notice would arise if India wasn't diong the needful. Even Jadeja and Azharuddin were never allowed to play after they were involved in cheating.
Every country has bad eggs. How a country deals with the bad eggs, tells you someting about the polity.
The story has been confirmed by the Dehli police when the Dehli police boss held a press conference at 14.00 hrs where is ur correspondant ET is he sleeping, there is nothing else on all TV channels since morning.
It is Indian party league indeed. Totally staged. Why only Sreesanth? How about the team ownership? They fix the matches. They are bigwigs and no one can touch them. I wish all the state governments should tax anything to do with IPL very heavily. So that it will become India's rich league. IPL IS A BIG DRAMA.
This was bound to happen when sole purpose of these games was to earn money. I agree to comment above that this is the tip of iceberg. For starters, in this very season rewind back little further and check RP Singh's huge no-balls in a last ball "thriller" between CSK and RCB.
@Asif Butt: India always punished the culprits when ever found them guilty. Our rules and judiciary are stronger than pakistan.
@B: with election season and EPL over, i am looking forward to watch anything even close to sports.
Who cares, ipl sucks anyway, but dude the post-match parties, ohh, heaven I tell you.
@John: I have heard that paki players cries on not allowing them to play in IPL .
For all those who are saying that they are arrested by Indian Police not British so my question is Was Indian Police became blind when Suresh Raina was found with Indian Bookie. That video was telecast on Indian News Channels as well.
Nothing to surpirse almost all the matches are fixed in IPL. It is just like WWE of circket.
@Rameez: Fixing is nt bad when done by indian player. Cricket is safe even blast in side the ground if place Is INDIA.
NAME DOES MATTERS U KNOW
IPL is dreck anyway.
@Vikram: And India should be banned from cricketing for always hiding whatever it finds out about it players from time to time.
But as usual you will be in denial , so keep bluffing ...
@nishant: Either u r too ignorant or u r relieved that the iceberg is saved by this tip.
The Indian Mafia and BCCI has always been too strong to let their players get stuck into this quicksand.
It is global dominance which saves you , not your so called and self presumed corruption free cricket.
IPL = Indian Party League.
@EHM: spot fixing is there everywhere. this shows Indian commitment to track and expose corruption. unlike pakis who are trying hard to protect spot fixers.
It is statistically proved that IPL stands for Indian Fixed League.
Indians here never let go of any chance to start bashing Pakistan. These are INDIAN players which are arrested for spot fixing and IPL stands for INDIAN premier league, still they are bashing Pakistan..Pathetic!
Give the news its due prominence ET. Lets see how Indians respond to it.
completely scripted matches and completely fake adrenalin rush- even foreign players are participating in scripts against $$
@Kash on the same line Pakistan should be banned from Cricket by ICC because some Pakistani cricketers were involved in spot fixing.
Who is that stupid who gave money to Sreesanth for playing bad when he does it all the time free.
They play cricket in IPL? :o
no excuses, ICC should take notice of the situation and ban them all.
IPL is the most illegal betting and spot fixings league of the world, it has to be banned...
come on pakistan ppl enjoy this momen!!!!!write watever u want but plz dont forget he is arrested by indian police not london police and going to be persecuted in indian court...shows our commitment for cleaner cricket.. and most importantly we r not playing victim card as i hv heard ur expert saying " hamare bechare player ko hi kyu pakarte hain"...
Now the India and IPL bashing will start but let me remind you that its our internal systems which put these culprits behind bars and not some English media, court or police.
I think this news should be an answer to all pakistanis who accuse india of specifically conspiring against pakistani players..
No new surprise. IPL has alot more than this.