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ICC team to visit Nagpur for investigation

New Delhi: With the Marlon Samuels affair threatening to snowball into a major scandal, the International Cricket Council on Friday decided to send a special team to Nagpur to investigate the matter.

The team, mainly comprising ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit officials, will be in Nagpur by Monday and will have detailed discussions with the Nagpur police, according to a top BCCI source.

"We have received a communication that a team from ICC will be going to Nagpur. We are ready to cooperate in the investigations," the source said.

During their stay in Nagpur, the ACU officials will also interact with the staff of the hotel where the West Indian cricketers were put up for their one-day match against India last month.

The ACU team will also try to ascertain whether any other cricketer was involved in leaking information to bookies.

The team will submit its report to the ICC.

"The ICC then will forward the report to the West Indies Cricket Board which will have to take action if the player is found to be guilty," the source said.

Lara extends support

West Indies captain Brian Lara said he was unable to contact Samuels till now, but wanted him to know that he had the full support of the entire team.

"I have been unable to contact the WICB or more importantly Marlon Samuels as the report emerged while I was in London overnight," Lara was quoted as saying by NDTV.

"Ultimately I would like to speak to Marlon to let him know that he has the full support of myself and the other players. He needs to stay focussed on the things he can control. We have a World Cup to win," he said. — PTI

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