The Bangladesh Cricket Board will co-operate with India in the ongoing spot-fixing investigation if any request comes through an official channel, said the officials on Wednesday.
The BCB made its position clear after media reports suggested that an Indian bookie claimed to police that he had fixed matches in the Bangladesh Premier League with the assistance of some Bangladeshi players he knew.
No Bangladeshi player was named in India’s media reports but it at least succeeded in dragging Bangladesh to the continuing saga that rocked the landscape of Indian cricket for the last few days.
The BCB said it cannot act simply based on media reports as there is no concrete allegation against any Bangladeshi player.
‘We cannot act based on a media report. If the BCCI [Board of Control for Cricket in India] sense anything wrong and seek our help, we will obviously co-operate,’ said Ismail Haider Mallick, member secretary of the BPL governing council.
‘We can also co-operate with Delhi police provided they come through an official channel,’ he said.
Asked if they will provide their backing if the Delhi police wanted to quiz any Bangladeshi player, Mallick, who is also a member of BCB’s ad-hoc committee, said it will not be an easy process.
‘If any such request arrives, we will have to talk to our president [Nazmul Hasan]. Obviously we all want to get rid of spot fixing from cricket. But we have to see the basis of any allegations,’ added Mallick.
The BPL encountered several spot-fixing scandals in its first two years when a suspected Pakistani bookie was arrested in Dhaka in the first season and two Indian citizens were quizzed before being released in the second season.
A number of BPL matches were considered to be susceptible in the second edition, which ended in February, though no official investigation was carried out
-With New Age input
