Decision to examine Kapil after re-examining Sidhu and Wadekar

The sources said examination of Kapil Dev would be possible if these two corraborated what they had told to Prabhakar on video tapes.

The former test cricketer had secretly shot his conversation with several players and board officials over a period of time. He submitted the tapes to the agency on June 3.

They said another cricketer-turned-commentator Ravi Shastri was also likely to be called by the agency as he was the only person who had supported the statement of Prabhakar.

Meanwhile, attempts to reach Kapil Dev failed as he was not available for his comments. However, before leaving for Bangladesh to participate in the Asia Cup, Dev had said that he would co-operate with the agency.

The two had been examined by CBI earlier last month in connection with the match-fixing scandal and both had reportedly denied the allegations of bribery made by Prabhakar against Kapil Dev.

The sources said Singh and Wadekar, in their deposition before the agency, denied that they were aware of the allegation made by Prabhakar that Kapil Dev had offered him money.

The viewing of nine video tapes by the Special Crime Branch of the CBI was completed and these would now be handed over to the legal cell of the agency to examine whether they could stand scrutiny in a court of law.

Sidhu, who was named by Prabhakar as a witness to the offer allegedly made by Kapil Dev in a hotel room he shared with the former Indian opener, had told the agency that there was no truth behind the allegation, they said.

About the tapes submitted by Prabhakar, the sources said that since these were only a circumstantial evidence under the law, it was necessary to cross-check with the players and officials.

Among the witnesses cited by Prabhakar during his 90-minute deposition on May 24, the CBI will also examine shortly others including former skippers Mohammed Azharuddin, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, the sources said.