I think it crazy that any player will bet to lose. I have never heard even a whisper of it from any teammate. We spend years and years to train ourselves and are lucky to be selected in the national team. Then to think that we will bet to lose makes no sense. Thereby, we will ruin and sacrifice all that we have achieved.

We earn about rupees forty lakhs an year, officially from the BCCI. In addition we make quite some money in other lawful ways as in advertisements. There is no need to look beyond it. The team meets very often, we are together for long hours, we discuss our strategy but, never is there even a whisper of fixing a match or of betting.






Nayan Mongia stated that he was occupying the room adjoining Manoj Prabhakar's room during that tour. His roommate was Prashant Vaidya. He never heard any shouting or commotion as a sequel to this alleged offer. He does not recollect any journalist sitting in his room when the alleged offer was made.

He heard about this alleged incident for the first time when Shri I S Bindra made those allegations on TV. His roommate Prashant Vaidya also never mentioned anything to him. Mongia stated that he had never been approached by any player, ex-player or bookie to underperform for a consideration.

About his slow batting in Kanpur against West Indies in 1994, he stated that there was some discussion in the dressing room that no further wickets should be lost and he had passed on the same instructions to Manoj Prabhakar. On being asked as to who had given those instructions to him, he could not give a satisfactory answer and stated that there was some general talk in the dressing room. He denied having ever placed bets in England during a match not involving India. He also denied that he was involved with Mohd. Azharuddin in fixing matches. He stated that he had not received any money from Azharuddin or Ajay Sharma. He further stated that he had no knowledge of any match in the Titan Cup series, 1996 or the Pepsi Cup series in 1999 having been fixed by Azharuddin. He denied that he had ever been offered money by a bookie to underperform.