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It's just not cricket, says Boycott : Former England captain, Geoffrey Boycott, said on Saturday that match fixing has no place in the game, declaring that it was 'just not cricket'

Natarajan Sriram

24-Sep-2000

It's just not cricket, says Boycott: Former England captain, Geoffrey Boycott, said on Saturday that match fixing has no place in the game, declaring that it was 'just not cricket'. Boycott was at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to spend time with upcoming cricketers as part of a promotional campaign for the ESPN-Star Sports programme Sportsline.

Dwelling at length about the ongoing controversy, Boycott felt that match fixing had been going on for many years and that it was difficult to kill the rumours. He added that no one had realised the extent of the problem since there was no evidence in the form of `pictures or sound' till the Hansie Cronje scandal broke out.

Speaking on the revelations made by the Delhi Police and other investigating agencies, he believed that there was more to come and hoped that the agencies would get to the bottom of the issue.

Buena Vista acquires ICC Knock-out marketing rights: Press Trust of India reported on Saturday that Buena Vista Television (BVTI) have acquired the exclusive marketing rights of the ICC Knockout tournament in the Kenyan capital Nairobi from October 3 to 15, to be telecast live on Doordarshan.

The tournament will feature eleven national teams fighting for the title with India taking on hosts Kenya in the opening match on October 3. The other teams in the fray are Australia, Pakistan, England, South Africa, West Indies, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.

All the matches are to be telecast live on Doordarshan with in-depth match analysis by the former England captain Geoffrey Boycott and former India captain Sunil Gavaskar.

Kapil Dev loses S Kumar's advertising campaign: The Press Trust of India on Saturday reported that Synfab, a Rs 600- crore worth textile manufacturer owned by the S Kumar's group, have decided to replace former Indian captain Kapil Dev with the Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan for their advertising campaign.

Speaking at the launch of the a new range of casual wear, the Synfab Managing Director Nitin Kasliwal said that Roshan has been signed initially for a two year period. Incidentally Kapil Dev had signed a promotional campaign for the company's new range of garments only last year.

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