Mumbai: Four suspected bookies held

Sunday, June 10, 2007, 10:21 [IST]

Mumbai, June 10: City police arrested four suspected bookiesfrom the Malwani area in suburban Malad for allegedly betting on theongoing second Afro-Asia Cup.

''We have arrested some bookies, and they are being interrogated,'' a Malwani Police Station official told UNI.

He, however, did not specify the number of bookies arrested nor divulged any other detail.

The three-match day-night one-day international series in the second editions of the Afro-Asian Cup is being held in India.

Asia XI has already clinched the Cup with a 31-run victory overAfrica XI in the second one-dayer of the Cup held in Chennai today.

The first one-dayer was played at Bangalore on June 6 and won by Asia XI by 34 runs.

The third and final match of the Cup is to be played tomorrow at Chennai.

UNI

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