Proposed Meghalaya League won’t be called off: Naba Bhattacharjee

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Cricket Association (MCA) secretary Naba Bhattacharjee  on Thursday clarified that they will not call off the proposed Meghalaya League for just one or two individual and the fate of the event depends on the approval of the BCCI.
The Committee of Administrators (COA) earlier directed the BCCI’s Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) to probe if Aushim Khetarpal – the man former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming and England all-rounder Chris Lewis claimed offered £30,000 to fix a Test match in 1999 and Khetarpal was one of the people who had submitted a proposal to conduct the T20 tournament in the state
Meghalaya Premier T20 League and hetarpal was one of the people who had submitted a proposal to conduct the T20 tournament
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Meghalaya Cricket Association (MCA) secretary Naba Bhattacharjee  said that the Executive Committee and General Body of the Association had approved in principle for holding the Meghalaya Premiere League
Denying the allegations Meghalaya Cricket Association has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Orient Tradelink , Bhattacharjee said that the proposal of the company was not upto the mark even as he added that draft MOU was vetted
According to Bhattacharjee, they found out later that one of the individual does not have a clean record and he is not in good books and now it all depends on BCCI’s approval if the event is to be held or not.There was no mention of Khetarpal being under the scanner in 1999 for alleged match-fixing links in the news report, but a former BCCI official alerted the COA of his past.