During a day off from his Indian Premier League (IPL) commentary duties, Ravi Shastri was flooded with congratulatory text messages from his friends on being named in a three-man panel suggested by the Indian cricket board to probe into the spot fixing controversy that rocked IPL-6.
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RK Raghavan, the former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief and JN Patel, the ex-chief justice of the Calcutta High Court are other members of the panel.
&ldquo;I will need to talk to the BCCI very extensively about my new responsibility. As things stand, I will return to India from Dubai on May 2 or 3, but if I am summoned (for the probe) in between, I will make my travel plans accordingly,&rdquo; Shastri said from Dubai yesterday.
Need clarity About whether he will have to suspend his commentary assignments, Shastri said: &ldquo;I really don&rsquo;t know who will ask me not to do commentary. That&rsquo;s why I need to talk to the BCCI in order to make my future plans.&rdquo;
mid-day provided him the names of his colleagues on the panel. &ldquo;Is that so?&rdquo; Shastri exclaimed when informed that.
JN Patel was the appointed Supreme Court judge of the Special Court constituted to deal with the Mumbai bomb blasts case in 1993. Shastri added: &ldquo;I really don&rsquo;t know what my exact role will be. I am surprised that the learned BCCI members proposed my name.&rdquo;

Ravi Shastri was flooded with congratulatory text messages from his friends on being named in a three-man panel suggested by the Indian cricket board to probe into the spot fixing controversy that rocked IPL-6

Need to talk to BCCI extensively about my new responsibility: Ravi Shastri

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Ravi Shastri was flooded with congratulatory text messages from his friends on being named in a three-man panel suggested by the Indian cricket board to probe into the spot fixing controversy that rocked IPL-6

Need to talk to BCCI extensively about my new responsibility: Ravi Shastri

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