BCCI - Make betting legal

[Tigers_eye]

What can I say, these board members at BCCI have no care for the game. Money is the only thing they know. Mr. Indrajit Bindra a SENIOR member has asked the Indian Govt. to legalize gambling. Where is his morals? There are other ways of stopping match fixing. and what makes him so sure that legalizing gambling can erade match fixing or corruption?

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=31704

Cricket

Make betting legal: Bindra

Reuters, Mumbai

Senior Indian cricket board official Inderjit Bindra has called for the government to legalise betting in the country to help rid match-fixing and corruption in the sport.

"When you regulate betting and the government controls it, you have better control and supervision over match-fixing," Bindra told Reuters on Thursday. "Have everything above the surface, that's better."

India, which is the financial powerhouse of the sport, has been at the centre of several match-fixing and illegal gambling scandals after several prominent players were named in an Indian federal police investigation into match-fixing in 2000.

In 2007, West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels faced an investigation from his national board over alleged links with a bookmaker during a one-day tour of India.