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India's fast bowler Sreesanth has been handed a life ban by the BCCI for spotfixing during IPL 2013 . Sreesanth tweeted just after the news of his ban, "surprising". "Been tracking the news channels... Me getting a life ban??!! Very surprising," he said.

Three Rajasthan Royals players, Sreesanth , Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested on Thursday for their alleged involvement in spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) season 6. The trio allegedly received upto Rs 60 lakh for conceding runs in a pre-determined over from bookies with possible Mumbai underworld links. The special cell of the Delhi Police arrested Sreesanth and his teammates — Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan — in Mumbai early this morning for indulging in spot-fixing in at least three IPL matches on May 5, 9 and 15. Eleven bookies have also been arrested from Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The police are on the look-out for two more bookies. A Delhi court has sent the three players and all bookies to five-day police custody. The players, who have been suspended by the BCCI, have been brought to Delhi and charged under Section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy). They are also likely to be booked under the stringent MCOCA, Maharashtra Con...

India at the end of this month before play the Test series against West Indies got the dual shock because fast bowlers Zaheer Khan and S Sreesanth have been out of the team because of injury. Zaheer and Sreesanth was selected for the 16-member Indian team to begin the three-Test series in Kingston from June 20 but now they cant able to go West indies because they need time to recover from injuries . Zaheer's injury was on the right ankle, while Sreesanth is surviving with elbow injury. Praveen Kumar and Abhimanyu Mithun has been placed in the test team instead of two . Once again Injuries of the two fast bowlers will begin a issue of club versus country as Sehwag and gambhir played in the IPL4 despite having injuries.