A committee set up by India’s apex court on Sunday found Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of the country’s cricket board chief and an official of the Chennai franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL), guilty of illegal betting during last season’s Twenty20 competition. The scandal surfaced last year when former test bowler Sreesanth and two other local cricketers were arrested on suspicion of taking money to concede a fixed number of runs.
With India 1-0 down and facing their first series loss to New Zealand since 2002, Dhoni, who plays for the IPL’s Chennai team, was expected to attend the news conference by the local and travelling Indian press contingent.
He was instead replaced by opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan for the team’s only media conference ahead of the match at Wellington’s Basin Reserve. A team official also refused to allow any questioning on matters other than the test and when one reporter tried to ask how the team had prepared for the match with reports of the IPL scandal swirling in India, he refused to allow Dhawan to answer and shut down the conference shortly afterwards.
Ross Taylor ruled out of 2nd Test
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s frontline batsman and former skipper Ross Taylor was ruled out for the second Test against India starting Friday since his wife is expecting their second child anytime during the match.
Skipper Brendon McCullum said that batsman Tom Latham and all-rounder Jimmy Neesham will make their debuts.
Form guide:
NZ: WWWDD
INDIA: LLDWW
PREVIEW STATS:
# India have now lost more away Tests under Dhoni than any other captain.
# In New Zealand’s last three Tests, quick bowlers have taken 59 of the 60 wickets.
With India 1-0 down and facing their first series loss to New Zealand since 2002, Dhoni, who plays for the IPL’s Chennai team, was expected to attend the news conference by the local and travelling Indian press contingent.
He was instead replaced by opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan for the team’s only media conference ahead of the match at Wellington’s Basin Reserve. A team official also refused to allow any questioning on matters other than the test and when one reporter tried to ask how the team had prepared for the match with reports of the IPL scandal swirling in India, he refused to allow Dhawan to answer and shut down the conference shortly afterwards.
Ross Taylor ruled out of 2nd Test
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s frontline batsman and former skipper Ross Taylor was ruled out for the second Test against India starting Friday since his wife is expecting their second child anytime during the match.
Skipper Brendon McCullum said that batsman Tom Latham and all-rounder Jimmy Neesham will make their debuts.
Form guide:
NZ: WWWDD
INDIA: LLDWW
PREVIEW STATS:
# India have now lost more away Tests under Dhoni than any other captain.
# In New Zealand’s last three Tests, quick bowlers have taken 59 of the 60 wickets.