A Lanka Premier League team co-owner has been arrested in Sri Lanka over an alleged bribery attempt involving a player.
Sri Lanka police arrested the Indian co-owner of a Lanka Premier League (LPL) team on Friday, hours before the tournament was due to begin, on suspicion of trying to bribe a player.
The suspect, identified as Manjot Kalra, was arrested at a hotel in Colombo as he was "about to pay" a player 9.5 million rupees ($28,700), Inspector Supun Vidanage of the Sports Investigation Unit said.
He said Kalra would be produced before a magistrate soon.
The player had alerted police when he was first approached about 10 days earlier, Vidanage said, without naming him.
