Kapil gets clean chit

NEW DELHI, OCT. 22. The cricket board's internal inquiry into the match-fixing scandal has exonerated Kapil Dev from any wrongdoing and closed all cases pending against him but found two former captains - Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajit Wadekar - ``remiss'' in at least one controversial situation.

The inquiry headed by the BCCI Anti-Corruption Commissioner, Mr. K. Madhavan, concluded that there was ``no misconduct of any type'' in the Ahmedabad test against New Zealand in 1999 in which India did not impose a follow-on despite being in a position to do so. Kapil Dev, then coach of the Indian team, and captain Sachin Tendulkar had been severely criticised for the decision and allegations surfaced that the match, eventually ending in a draw, had been fixed.

- PTI

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