The Sting: Tehelka’s modus operandi was to send Manoj Prabhakar to meet players and officials with a hidden camera and get them to divulge details about match-fixing in Indian cricket.
The fallout: CBI named Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma and Manoj Prabhakar as the cricketers involved in match-fixing. While Sharma and Azharuddin were handed a lifetime ban from professional cricket by the BCCI, Jadeja and Prabhakar were banned for five years for their involvement with bookmakers.’
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ANIRUDDHA
BAHAL
Aniruddha Bahal (born c. 1967) is an Indian journalist, author, founder and editor of the online magazine Cobrapost.com. Born in Allahabad
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