Investigation will not be confined to Nagpur match

Dubai: The entire one-day series between India and West Indies may come under the scrutiny of the investigators who are probing the links between West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels and an alleged bookie.

According to a source in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), not only the first one-dayer in Nagpur but matches in Cuttack, Chennai and Vadodara may also come under investigation.

Questions are being asked over the performance of some of the players. Chanderpaul had scored 149 off 133 balls in one match while in another he took 125 balls to score 67.

Similarly, the West Indies elected to field even on flat wickets despite knowing that it could be tough to chase a huge score.

Incidentally, in the first one-day match, Samuels bowled 10 overs and gave away very few runs, but did not bowl at all in the second match.

According to information received from India, efforts are also on by some politicians to force the police to conclude that the Nagpur match was not fixed and exonerate Samuels of any wrongdoing.

This is being done to ensure that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) votes for BCCI president Sharad Pawar for the post of ICC president.

Betting trend

Nagpur police are believed to have collected a lot of details on the betting trend before the match.

On the night before the Nagpur match, the going rate in favour of India was 80 to 90 paise, but after the alleged conversation between Samuels and the alleged bookie, it fell to 65 paise.

Meanwhile, Samuels played in a limited-overs game yesterday against Trinidad and took four wickets.