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What the Indian Police said...

The following is the statement from the police in Nagpur regarding match-fixing allegations involving West Indies cricket Marlon Samuels:

"It was observed that one of the West Indian players, staying in the room number 2006 of the Pride Hotel, was talking to an underworld person who is also a bookie before the match."

"Finding Samuel's behaviour fishy, we tapped his phone and found that Samuels was in touch with Kochar and passing on information about the match. The bookie, as we later discovered, was betting on the pitch and probably the team complexion as well."

"We wanted to come to conclusion, but we could not. We are not saying that the match was fixed. We found the behaviour of Samuels was a breach of ICC code of conduct (that no player should talk to an outsider during the match) and we have communicated the same to the BCCI."