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Ankeet Chavan, one of the three Rajasthan Royals players charged with spot-fixing during the 2013 IPL and banned for life by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, was paid Rs 32 lakh as Ranji Trophy dues by the Mumbai Cricket Association.
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MCA vice-president Ravi Savant said they had written to the BCCI in November 2014, seeking permission to give the player his dues but did not get any reply so they went ahead with the payment.
It includes match fees plus his share of the MCA's bonus amount that was given to all the team members for winning the Ranji title in the 2012-13 season.
"We wrote to BCCI after his parents approached us, seeking the Board’s permission to give him his dues as those were due to him before his transgression and subsequent ban. But when we got no reply (from BCCI) till March, we proceeded to grant him his dues," Savant explained.
What action, if any, will be taken by the changed order in the BCCI -- with Jagmohan Dalmiya at the helm -- remains to be seen.
Chavan, Shantakumaran Sreesanth and Ajit Chandila were implicated in the spot-fix scam and arrested by the police. While the first two were banned for life, the BCCI is yet to decide on the punishment for Chandila.
Savant said the MCA managing committee also decided to punish its errant players -- Suryakumar Yadav, who was stripped of captaincy for rude behaviour with team members earlier this season, and teenage batsman Sarfaraz Khan, for his abusive manners -- by withholding their Ranji dues for this as well as the next season to guarantee "better behaviour".
Yadav was axed midway as captain and replaced by Aditya Tare while Sarfaraz lost his place in the squad for poor performance.