Anurag Thakur, the former cricket board president has called for making public of all the 13 individuals alleged to have been involved in the 2013 spot-fixing scandal. The names were submitted to the Supreme Court in a sealed envelope by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee in Feb 2014.

Thakur spoke to TOI and said, “”For me, individuals are not important. The institution is important. I am not bothered about any ‘A’ or ‘B’ player. I am only concerned about BCCI as an institution. The envelope containing the name of the cricketers was never opened by the Court, which means the issue from where the entire episode started wasn’t resolved. But other issues against the BCCI were opened,”

If anyone is involved in match-fixing or unethical practice, there must be a harsher punishment because no name is bigger than the game,” he added.

“Certain A, B or C players are roaming free after so many years. They are sitting in TV studios. The same TV channels and newspapers which wrote against them on fixing and betting, they have called them cricket experts. So, there has to be some law and harsher punishment for such individuals and activities,” he explained.