BCCI passing the buck to ICC on Lalit Modi revelations about Raina, Jadeja ?

NEW DELHI: The BCCI has given a "clean chit" to cricketers Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja — accused by ex-IPL boss Lalit Modi of receiving favours from a real estate baron — and passed the buck to world body ICC since the concerned cricketers are "international players".

On Monday, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur pleaded helplessness since the ICC — to whom Modi wrote a letter in Oct 2013 naming the cricketers — has not communicated any further course of action."You have to understand that international players are probed by the ICC. If they had found anything, they would have reported it to us. If they haven't done that, that means it is a clean chit... We are not passing the buck to ICC," Thakur said.

The ICC hasn't revealed yet if its own anti-corruption unit had investigated the matter after receiving the complaint.

Modi, meanwhile, accused ICC chairman N Srinivasan of "shielding" the players, who play for Chennai Super Kings, once owned by Srinivasan. "What is the anti-corruption (ICC chairman) N Srinivasan doing to shield the players that are from CSK. I want to know that question and India wants to know," Modi told a TV channel.