From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 11:31 PM IST

A suspected case of match-fixing during the first one-day international (ODI) match between India and the West Indies played here Jan 21 is under investigation, police sources said here Wednesday.

Details of an attempt at match-fixing were being culled from a telephonic conversation tapped the day the inaugural ODI was played, the sources said, adding that the Nagpur police had passed on the details to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as also to the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Mukesh Kochar, alleged to be an aide of mobster Dawood Ibrahim and a part of an international betting ring is suspected to have approached West Indies player Marlon Samuels in his hotel room in Nagpur.

Though neither BCCI officials nor those of the Nagpur police could be contacted immediately for confirmation, the sources said the cricket board authorities were seized of the matter.

India, batting first, had won the ODI by 14 runs in a nail biting finish.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)