Indo-Pak World Cup Cricket semifinal was not fixed: Ganguly

New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) Allegations that the 2011 Cricket World Cup semifinal match between India and Pakistan was fixed were rubbished by players and those associated with the game even as a Bollywood actress at the centre of the fresh controversy threatened to sue a British newspaper which carried the report. Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly found little substance in the report published in the London newspaper, Sunday Times. "I don't know how they have got the information but let me tell that India are world champions and nobody can take that away from us," Ganguly told reporters in New Delhi on Monday. The newspaper carried out a sting operation on a Delhi-based bookie, who claimed that the Indian bookmakers are fixing the results of England county games and international fixtures and they are using a Bollywood actress as a honeytrap to recruit players from countries. The report also claimed that India's semi-final match in last year's World Cup at Mohali in northern India was rigged. Nupur Mehta, who has worked in Sunny Deol starrer 'Jo Bole So Nihal' (2005), dismisses as baseless and false that she was involved in any match fixing. She told PTI, "I have been accused of something that I have not done. All I would say is I am not guilty of any such thing." "The picture that they have used was taken during my film, 'Jo Bole So Nihal'," she said. The starlet was not named in the report but she has threatened to take legal action against the British daily. "I intend to take action against them." Meanwhile, Indian cricket board BCCI has declined to comment on the report. BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla, who is also the IPL Chairman, said unless they received something concrete from the ICC (global cricket body) or any agency, they will not comment on the issue. "Newspapers can publish anything, unless we get something concrete from an agency or ICC, I don't think it would be appropriate to react to it," Shukla told reporters. "We haven't got anything from ICC, unless we get it from some police agency, it would be inappropriate to react to media reports," he reiterated. PTI