CBI has degraded our
prestige: BCCI
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday charged that the Central Bureau of Investigation has degraded its
prestige in the public eye and negated its good work by
furnishing erroneous facts and figures.
Expressing "disppointment, surprise and concern" with
some of the observations made by the country's premier investigative
agency about the functioning of the BCCI, in its 'Report on
Cricket Match-Fixing and Related malpractices', the BCCI said, "The uncharitable observations are the least the board
deserves. This may prompt many to say 'it's not cricket'."
Giving a point-by-point rebuttal of the observations about its functioning in the CBI report, the BCCI claimed, in a booklet published after its special general meeting in Calcutta, that the incidents of match-fixing and under-performance should not be looked upon as a result of the "Board's shortcomings".
"The members felt that when the report has been furnished
by a premier organisation like the CBI, the erroneous facts
and figures negated the good work done by the board over the
years by a stroke of the pen and degraded its prestige in the
public eye," the 55-page booklet 'Observations on the report
of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Cricket match-fixing
and related malpractices' said.
Mail Cricket Editor