Prabhakar appears before Madhavan, no word from Azhar

Former India all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar, who arrived In Chennai this morning to appear before the cricket Board's Inquiry Commissioner K Madhavan in connection with the match fixing charges, said 'The battle is over, but the war to cleanse the game is on'.

Speaking to reporters before presenting himself for the cross-examination by Madhavan on the findings of CBI report on match fixing, Prabhakar, one of those indicted by the agency, however, alleged that the report was full of 'inaccuracies'.

In an obvious reference to his charges that Indian cricket was plagued by match fixing and betting and maintaining that he was not involved, Prabhakar said 'The battle is over, but the war to cleanse the game is on.'

Asked to explain about the inaccuracies, he said it was obvious that they (CBI) had not seen the video cassettes handed over to them by him. 'The report also does not reflects the evidences that I gave during my examination,' he added.

To a question on whether he would say anything different (new evidence) to Madhavan, Prabhakar said 'it all depended on how fair the cross-examination is going to be.'

In a separate interaction with the media personnel, Madhavan said there was no information as yet from former Captain Mohammed Azharuddin, who had also been summoned to appear before him.

Madhavan said Ajay Sharma would be examined in Delhi on Nov 14 as he had stated that he was not in a position to travel here due to health reasons. He had submitted a doctor's certificate in this regard.

While Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and former Physio Ali Irani would appear for the cross-examination tomorrow, Ram Adhar, groundsman of Ferozshah Kotla, had already been examined in Delhi a couple of days ago, Madhavan said.

Asked why Chennai was chosen for the cross-examination, the former CBI officer cited the disturbance at the press conference held by Jadeja at Delhi recently, and said the board wanted to avoid such incidents. Besides, the number of media persons would also be higher had the examination held in Delhi, he added.