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IPL betting racket busted in Karnataka, one held
With the arrest of one person, the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru police claimed to have busted an Indian Premier League (IPL) betting racket running in the city. They also recovered Rs 30 lakh and a mobile phone from his possession.
According to the CCB, the arrested accused has been identified as Santhosh (33), a resident of Banashankari in the city.
The police added that Santhosh was arrested from a petrol pump on Tuesday where he had allegedly come to share the betting money with those who had bet with him.
A police officer said that the accused had organised betting during an IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals on Monday night.
The officer added that Santhosh used to organise the betting racket after collecting data from Lotusbook247.com, Kingexchange.com and playwin99.com.
The official said these websites provide data in various forms such as win-loss ratio, balls-runs ratio, and death over bowling ratio etc by individual bowlers of a team.
“Bookies generally use these sites to organise their betting,” he said.
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Australian cricketers finally reunited with their families after a long time
After playing the IPL 2021 Australian cricketers were not allowed to go to their home country and were stuck in quarantine. The cricketers spent last two weeks in quarantine in the Maldives before they reunited with their family members in Australia.
Players and support staff participating in the IPL had not met with their families since early April when they came for IPL. On Monday, amid tears of joy and relief, they reunited with their family members in Sydney.
Seamer Jason Behrendorff, who was among those to exit quarantine, said, “It was nice to know that we were getting home that’s for sure.” “It’s always tough being stuck somewhere, and knowing that we’re able to get home was a relief, and now we’re out of quarantine, I can’t wait to get home and see my family,” he further added.
The highlight of the day was premier fast bowler Pat Cummins exiting the hotel and reuniting with his pregnant partner Becky Boston, a video of which was uploaded on Twitter by well-known Australian sports journalist Chloe-Amanda Bailey.
Pat Cummins, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell and David Warner were amongst the players who reunited with their family members.