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November 1, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) -- An inquiry into cricket's biggest scandal has alleged that former England captain Alec Stewart, West Indian star Brian Lara, and other leading Indian and international players were paid or offered money by an Indian bookmaker.
The report by the Central Bureau of Investigation will be made public Wednesday.
"Lara is there, Stewart is there, some from Pakistan and several others," Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa told reporters. He did not give details of their alleged roles in the scandal. "Kapil (Dev) is not there," he said.
Press Trust of India news agency, which released purported excerpts of the report, said the CBI had concluded that former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin fixed matches with the help of teammates Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia.
The CBI said that an Indian bookie M.K. Gupta had either offered or paid bribes to former South African captain Hansie Cronje, Stewart, Lara, Australia's Mark Waugh and his former teammate Dean Jones, Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva and Arjuna Ranatunga, former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe and former Pakistani captain Salim Malik, Press Trust reported.
The 162-page investigation report was submitted to the federal government Monday. Dhindsa has said that the government will seek legal opinion on the report before deciding its next step.
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