A T20 tournament took place in Sawara village, 16 km away from Chandigarh amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the tournament was streamed online as a Sri Lankan T20 League game as they named it as ‘UVA T20 League’. However, the anti-corruption unit of BCCI has monitored the league as well as Punjab Police. The state police said that they’re investigating the matter to see if there’s any involvement of a betting syndicate.
On the other hand, BCCI has asserted that they will be taking action against them if it wasn’t a BCCI-approved league. Talking about the same, BCCI ACU chief, Ajit Singh during a chat with India Today said, “Our process is on. When we will know about the people involved, we will update our database. We would like to know who was involved. However, only police can take action on this. As a BCCI enforcement agency, we have no ju risdiction over it.”
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He further added, “If it was a BCCI approved league or had players’ participation, we could have taken against them. If this is done for the purpose of betting, it is a criminal offense and police has the jurisdiction over, we don’t,” he added.
Bhagiradhan Balachandran, assistant secretary of the Uva Province Cricket Association, also pointed out that such name was used for being a relatively less-active cricket association of the island nation.
He explained, “The whole thing seems like a farce. We are not the most active cricket association in Sri Lanka, so somebody did proper research on that and used our name. We have no idea about this and no Sri Lankan players were involved.”
Mohali’s Senior Superintendent of Police, Kuldeep Singh Chahal, pointed out that there can be a possible betting racket involved in the tournament as well.
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Chahal explained, “A case under Section 420 IPC (cheating) has been registered by the police. As per preliminary investigations, betting could be going on in the match which was held. Further investigations into the case are under progress.”
