NEW DELHI, OCT 30: At least two former Indian cricket captains and an ex-physiotherapist are among the six persons indicted in the interim report on match-fixing submitted by the agency to the government today.The 162-page report, which was handed over to Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa by Joint Director of the agency R N Swani, has indicted six persons against whom some "circumstantial evidence" has been found.However, the sources said despite this evidence, the six could not be prosecuted under the Prevention of Corruption Act as they were not public servants.The much awaited CBI report on match-fixing in cricket also names some foreign players who the bookies, questioned by the agency, alleged had been involved in match-fixing.They include a Pakistani, three Australians, two West Indians and one English players.These foreign players include former Pakistani cricket captain Salim Malik and disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje.Dhindsa told a battery of reporters he would first read the report before deciding whether to seek legal opinion from the Law Ministry.Dhindsa refused to be drawn into any discussion over the names appearing in the media and said "I will not comment on any of the issues until I read the report."Submission of this report, which was prepared after extensive investigation since registration of the preliminary enquiry on May 2, was deferred thrice earlier. Dhindsa had earlier said the report would be tabled in Parliament, but Government might make public its contents even before the winter session of Parliament next month.Agency sources said the CBI had gathered some circumstantial evidence which confirms the manner in which matches were fixed, including last minute changes in the team prompted by bookies. During the investigation, which was completed in less than six months, sleuths of the Special Crime Branch also traced calls made to and from cellular telephones used by a cricketer allegedly to contact bookies.The investigating agency was earlier scheduled to submit the report in the first week of this month, which was later deferred till October 25. The CBI also has on record some bookies saying that some of the cricketers had been paid money in foreign currencies and their travel expenses abroad were met by them, the sources claimed. The sources said at least two Indian players had "deliberately" played slow to throw away a match.The report was an interim one as the agency planned to continue with its probe in certain cases, the sources said.
