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Samuels affair: ICC begins enquiry

NEW DELHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption officials began investigations on Monday after a police report said that West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels contacted a bookmaker during a recent series in India.

Three ICC anti-corruption officials met senior police officials in the central city of Nagpur where police said they had taped telephone conversations of Samuel allegedly passing confidential team information to the bookmaker. "We are trying to establish what information they (police) have," ICC spokesman Brian Murgatroyd said by telephone from Nagpur. "They have been very helpful."

The ICC team headed by Jeffrey Rees, chief investigator of the anti-corruption unit, would end their work in Nagpur in two days, he said.

Later the Nagpur Police Commissioner, S.P.S. Yadav said the West Indies captain Brian Lara was forced to field first in the first cricket one-dayer against India because the players' kit had not arrived till half an hour before the start of the game.

"The kit arrived just half an hour before the start of the game by a delayed Jet Airways flight which was 15 minutes late (on January 21)," Mr. Yadav told a press conference.

The new disclosure, however, does not seem to have any link with the taped conversations. — Agencies

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