Board to decide on making Chandrachud report public

The pressure on the Board to make public the report, submitted by the former Chief Justice in 1997, has increased following the opinions of the man who headed the one-man probe commission himself and Home Minister LK Advani in favour of such a step being taken by the BCCI.

“The report was done at the behest of BCCI and I do not know why they have not published it as yet,” the Home Minister had told “Aaj Tak” on Friday.

Advani had said if there were any specific instances where a cricketer named another of being involved in match-fixing, the Government will order investigating agencies to inquire into these.

Referring to the Chandrachud Committee, which probed alleged involvement of Indian players in match-fixing but subsequently absolved all cricketers of any wrongdoings three years ago, Advani had said if any names of Indian cricketers come up in the wake of recent scandal enveloping the cricket world, the government would not hesistate to get to the bottom of it.

Elaborating on next week’s meeting with Dalmiya, Board secretary Lele said that he would attend the meeting along with Board President AC Muthiah, the five vice-presidents, joint secretary Jyoti Bajpai and treasurer Kishore Rungta.

The ICC Chief has sought the meeting with the Board officials, “to exchange views and ascertain action comtemplated by BCCI in view of the developments on allegations made by the Police in India and the recent admission by South African skipper Hansie Cronje.”

Dalmiya feels that the recent allegations were a matter of grave concern for the ICC.

Although only South African players have been involved in the allegations made by the Delhi Police, the fact that such allegations had originated in India has prompted the ICC President to call upon the BCCI President to review the situation and to ascertain the actions contemplated by the BCCI at this stage.