New Delhi, Oct 9: The BCCI today said that it would wait for the ICC to complete its investigations on India TV sting operation on umpires who were willing to fix T20 matches for money.
A day after India TV beamed its programme purportedly showing the umpires willing to fix matches, the BCCI said that since no Indian umpire was involved it would wait for the probe to be completed.
“The ICC has to take a call on it. They (ICC) will be taking appropriate action. As far as we are concerned we will take action as we deem fit,” senior BCCI official Rajeev Shukla said.
“Our job is to keep the game clean. The BCCI takes strong and immediate action whenever such cases come up,” he said.
Meanwhile, India TV will soon hand over the videos to the International Cricket Council for its investigations.
The channel showed video clips purportedly taken by their undercover reporters in which the umpires were shown to be allegedly willing to give certain decisions in exchange for money.
The six umpires, who were shown in the TV sting operation willing to fix matches, are Nadeem Ghauri and Anees Siddiqui of Pakistan, Nadir Shah of Bangladesh and Gamini Dissanayake, Maurice Winston and Sagara Gallage of Sri Lanka.
Ghauri and Shah have officiated at the international level while the other four were first class umpires.
Soon after the sting operation was beamed last night, the ICC said it would investigate the matter and asked the channel to give any information which can assist in the probe.
“The ICC and its relevant members have been made aware of the allegations made by India TV this evening and calls on the station to turnover any information which can assist the ICC's urgent investigations into this matter,” the world body said in a statement.
