<table style="width: 126px; height: 174px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="126" align="left" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/sep/dilhara.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Dilhara Fernando </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Sri Lanka cricket denied the news that dashing batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan is under the International Cricket Council (ICC) scanner for his alleged links with a bookmaker.<br /><br />SLC also said it was pacer Dilhara Fernando, who was approached by a bookie, and that the incident was reported to the ICC. There were rumours that Dilshan was the player named in a Sri Lankan cricket board report to the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit last year after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected illegal bookmaker in a London nightclub. <br /><br />The report was filed by the Sri Lankan team manager after captain Kumar Sangakkara passed on suspicions among teammates that Dilshan had been seen with the bookie during the World Twenty20 tournament in England in June 2009. <br /><br />Sangakkara defended Dilshan and said that "neither I nor the Sri Lankan cricket board ever reported anything specific against any team mate". <br /><br />Sangakkara said Fernando "should be applauded for following the rules" and alerting the Sri Lanka authorities, who, in turn, shared the information with the ICC. <br /><br />SLC chief executive Ajith Jayasekara said Dilshan was not under ICC scanner. <br /><br />"We don't go by speculation or what any newspaper wants to say. The Anti Corruption Unit of the ICC has not reported any such involvement of a player. This has not been brought to our notice by the Anti Corruption unit of the ICC. There is no evidence against any Sri Lankan player," Jayasekara said.

Sri Lanka cricket denied the news that dashing batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan is under the International Cricket Council (ICC) scanner for his alleged links with a bookmaker

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