Indian news round-up

The secretary of the South African match-fixing enquiry Commission, John Bacon said on Wednesday that the commission is willing to travel to India in order to listen to the taped evidence against the deposed South African captain Hansie Cronje.

Speaking to a news agency in Cape Town, Bacon said ``We need to be able to listen to the tapes or at least to properly authenticated copies of them, If it means that we have to go to India, then we'll do that.''

The tapes held by the Delhi police is the main evidence which implicates Cronje, Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje and Pieter Strydom in match-fixing. The South African government had made a formal request to its Indian counterpart for access the evidence but has not yet been granted.

The Government council SS Gandhi informed Justice RS Sodhi of the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that the Delhi police would file the chargesheet as soon as they recieve any response to the letters rogatory that have been sent to various countries.

Gandhi informed the justice that ``We have received the report from the Interpol and the letters rogatory have been sent to various countries,'' and sought time till June 7 to state the actual position of the case.

Gandhi's request comes in the wake of the justice's query of the required time frame needed by the Delhi police in submitting the chargesheet while the hearing of the bail application for actor Krishan Kumar came up.

The National selection committee members Madan Lal and Ashok Malhotra have tied up with a cricket contest website which has been floated by a Delhi based Wadhwa Group.

Criccontest.com which has been recently launched as part of the IT company E-Inforogers has engaged both Madan Lal and Malhotra as its cricket consultant and weekly columnist respectively.