New Delhi , India ( CNN ) -- India 's cricket board have suspended five players accused of corruption following an undercover TV probe . The suspensions followed a TV channel 's sting operation that purportedly showed the five players -- domestic first-class cricketers assigned to teams in the Indian Premier League ( IPL ) -- discussing money to deliberately bowl no-balls and spot-fix matches . Spot-fixing refers to players secretly agreeing to perform an act such as a no-ball at a certain time during a match . Bets will be made with bookmakers on the basis of this information . The players , T.P . Sudhindra , Amit Yadav , Shalabh Srivastav , Abhinav Bali and Mohnish Mishra , have been barred from playing cricket matches supervised by Indian authorities pending an inquiry , the Board of Control for Cricket in India ( BCCI ) said in a statement Tuesday . The BCCI appointed Ravi Sawani , the former head of the International Cricket Council 's anti-corruption and security unit , to lead the investigation . Meanwhile , one of the suspended players threatened to sue the channel at the center of the allegations , India TV . `` This is a trap , '' Srivastav told the Times of India newspaper . `` Ask them to show the video clip in which I am demanding money or I am bowling no-balls . They have just put my photograph and played some telephone recordings which have been heavily edited , '' the paper quoted him as saying . However the BCCI action was backed by some . `` It was correct to suspend the players , '' said former Indian cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar in remarks published in the Times of India Wednesday . `` That 's the least ( the ) BCCI could have done . You do n't need players who are even contemplating doing things that they have allegedly done . '' In a high profile case last year , three top Pakistani cricketers were jailed in Britain after being convicted of plotting to cheat by bowling no-balls and taking bribes in a match against England in 2010 . Player convictions not the end of the corruption story . Former national team captain Salman Butt was sentenced to 30 months and bowler Mohammad Asif to one year in prison . Fellow bowler Mohammad Amir , a rising star in the sport at the age of 19 , was given a six-month jail term . However , the epicenter of cricket betting is India , where hundreds of millions of dollars are bet on matches , according to Ehsan Mani , a former President of the International Cricket Council ( ICC ) . Though match-fixing is rare , spot-fixing is very difficult to monitor , he said . `` The ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit is not able to access the betting odds being offered or monitor suspicious bets being placed . Unless betting is regulated in these countries it will remain very difficult to stop players being approached , '' he wrote in an opinion article for CNN last year .
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