Mongia denies role in match-fixing

Former India stumper Nayan Mongia, who has been banned by the Board for Cricket Control in India, along with four others, on being named by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the match-fixing scandal, said on Friday that he was shocked to hear about his ban as he was not involved in the controversy.

"I am a god-fearing man and I would not even think of doing anything like that [match-fixing]. The ban has come as a shock to me as I am innocent and only time will prove it," Mongia told PTI in Bombay

Mongia, who is in Bombay to play in the Times Shield tournament, said, "The media and the board should now help people like us as I have put in hundred per cent efforts whenever I have played for my country or my teams."

"I have read a part of the report which mentions my name and I find that I have been wrongly implicated as I was not even in the 14-member team in two of the three matches mentioned in the report," he added.

"I have nothing to fear for as my conscience says that I am clean. If I were to be involved in the controversy then I would not have been playing for my team but would have been hiding from the public. I am not only here but I got 70 odd runs and took four catches," Mongia said.

"The media should report the truth. In my case they had reported that the CBI had searched my Baroda house a few months back, which was not true. The gates and doors of my house are always open and I can assure you that no one came to search my house," he added.

The complete coverage

Mail Cricket Editor