HOW MATCH FIXING DRAMA UNFOLDED - PART 1

Indian Cricket Board secretary dismissed the match allegations as ``rubbish.''. In a TV interview he says ``as far as we are concerned, there is nothing. As far as we are concerned, everything is okay. This is not fair. Where is the question (of fixing the match)? This is all rubbish.'' He also says that he has doubts whether the police would be able to prove the charges in court. ``Making allegations does not end the matter. They have to prove the charges.''

Arrested Indian businessman Rajesh Kalra admits to offering the players 400,000 to 500,000 dollars to fix the matches according to an interview in a weekly magazine. ``The series was fixed at 400,000 to 500,000 US dollars,'' Kalra tells India Today.

Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar is of the view that the image of the game should be saved from such people. ``Take away every run, wicket and catch from those involved in the match fixing. If found guilty, none should be spared, past or present.''

Another former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar says ``I do not understand how they do such a thinb with so much more money in the game now,'' adding that if proved guilty they should be banned for life.

Delhi Police name another person involved in the match fixing controversy. He is Krishan Kumar, a former film actor and is briefly interrogated by a team of police officers but is admitted to a hospital in Mumbai complaining of angina. Kumar, a brother of late music baron Gulshan Kumar is said to have been a regular visitor to Kalra's home.

April 9

Hansie Cronje denies match fixing allegations at a news conference in Durban. ``I want to make 100 percent clear that I deny ever receiving any sum of money during the one day series in India. I want to also make it absolutely clear that I have never spoken to any member of the team about throwing a game.'' He says that he belives match fixing has no place in sport and speaks about the ``hurt'' the allegations have caused him. ``The only way to clear my name is to speak to the players and to check my bank accounts.''

Gibbs and Boje also attend the press conference and back Cronje's story and say neither had received any offers to fix matches.

Ali Bacher tells the media conference

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