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West Indies cricket has been dragged into the international match-fixing row.

Two unidentified West Indies cricketers have been implicated in a match-fixing report by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a British newspaper said yesterday.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, the involvement of the two West Indies players relates to a World Cup One-Day International. The names of the two West Indians were given to the CBI by some of the bookmakers questioned.

'But the CBI could not find any clinching evidence against an industrialist allegedly involved in fixing that (West Indies) match,' an Indian Express reported.

The CBI report suggested that four Indian players were in regular contact with bookmakers in relation to cricket matches.

The leaked CBI report is the latest chapter in a match-fixing scandal which has stunned the usually placid world of cricket.

The day after the Indian Express reported that Test players Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Sanjay Sharma and Manoj Prabhakar had been named in the CBI findings, the Telegraph said the report also made the allegations against the West Indians.

The allegations come on the eve of the West Indies’ five-Test tour to Australia due to start on November 7.

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