Mongia denies role in match-fixing
Former India stumper Nayan Mongia, who has been banned by the Board for Cricket Control in India, along with four others, on being named by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the match-fixing scandal, said on Friday that he was shocked to hear about his ban as he was not involved in the controversy.
"I am a god-fearing man and I would not even think of
doing anything like that [match-fixing]. The ban has come as a
shock to me as I am innocent and only time will prove it,"
Mongia told PTI in Bombay
Mongia, who is in Bombay to play in the Times Shield
tournament, said, "The media and the board should now help
people like us as I have put in hundred per cent efforts
whenever I have played for my country or my teams."
"I have read a part of the report which mentions my name
and I find that I have been wrongly implicated as I was not
even in the 14-member team in two of the three matches
mentioned in the report," he added.
"I have nothing to fear for as my conscience says that I
am clean. If I were to be involved in the controversy then I
would not have been playing for my team but would have been
hiding from the public. I am not only here but I got 70 odd runs and took four catches," Mongia said.
"The media should report the truth. In my case they had
reported that the CBI had searched my Baroda house a few
months back, which was not true. The gates and doors
of my house are always open and I can assure you that no one
came to search my house," he added.
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