
October 1: Delhi-Based sports promoter Aushim Khetrapal today denied the allegations of former England player Chris Lewis that he had offered 300,000 pounds to him to persuade English players to throw a Test match against New Zealand in August.
In an interview to be published in the coming issue of an English news magazine, Outlook, Khetrapal denied that he had offered money to English players Alec Stewart and Allan Mullaly.
He also denied that he had made a similar approach to New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming to influence the Test match at Leicester between England and New Zealand.
The magazine in a press statement claimed that it had managed to trace Khetrapal in Sri Lanka where he is currently scouting for locales of a music video he is making.
8220;I deny the charges by Lewis and Fleming. I talked to and met Fleming but it was basically about representing him for newspaper columns and some television work when he arrived for the New Zealand series in India,8221; Khetrapal said.