Lanka T10 team Owner captured on match-fixing charges

Prem Thakkur, the group proprietor of Galle Marvels in Lanka T10, has been captured on match-fixing charges. Thakkur was captured on Thursday, a day after the competition started, and was delivered under the steady gaze of the Colombo Judge's Court on Friday; he has since been remanded till December 16. Sri Lanka Police told ESPNcricinfo that Thakkur, an Indian public, had been captured by the Sri Lanka Sports Police Unit under the 2019 Counteraction of Offenses Connecting with Sports Act. He was captured at a lodging in Kandy, where the Lanka T10 competition is in progress. It is perceived that an unfamiliar player had hailed a fixing approach made by Thakkur. Like in the LPL recently, a delegate of the ICC hostile to defilement unit is additionally in Sri Lanka to direct the competition in line with Sri Lanka Cricket. While SLC is yet to talk regarding this situation, Lanka T10 competition chief Samantha Dodanwela affirmed that the competition "will go on as booked". This is the second establishment competition in Sri Lanka this year where a group proprietor has been captured under the nation's games hostile to debasement statute after LPL establishment Dambulla Roars' co-proprietor Tamim Rahman was captured in May on claims of match-fixing. In 2019, Sri Lanka turned into the primary country in South Asia to condemn match-fixing, with offenses connected with defilement in sports conveying different fines and a jail term of as long as a decade. The Lanka T10 is Sri Lanka's initial introduction to facilitating a T10 establishment association, with the occasion freedoms for the competition oversaw and worked by a consortium comprising of the Imaginative Creation Gathering, T Ten Games The executives and T Ten Worldwide Games, which likewise works a few other T10 establishment associations across the world.x