MUMBAI, April 11: Senior Indian cricket board official Inderjit Bindra has called for the government to legalise betting in the country to help rid match-fixing and corruption in the sport.

“When you regulate betting and the government controls it, you have better control and supervision over match-fixing,” Bindra said on Thursday. “Have everything above the surface, that’s better.”

Bindra’s statement came a week before the multi-million dollar Twenty20 Indian Premier League (IPL) begins on April 18. —Reuters