{"id":35521,"date":"2012-03-24T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=35521"},"modified":"2012-03-29T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:24:25","slug":"knowing-dilshan-does-not-make-make-me-a-match-fixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/knowing-dilshan-does-not-make-make-me-a-match-fixer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Knowing Dilshan Does Not Make Make Me A Match-Fixer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/knowing-dilshan-does-not-make-make-me-a-match-fixer\/nupur_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35523\" title=\"nupur_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nupur_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nupur_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/nupur_-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>By Colombo Telegraph-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Knowing Dilshan does not make me a match- fixer, says\u00a0Nupur Mehta, The Times of India reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nupur Mehta defiantly dares everyone to prove match-fixing allegations against her, even as she hints that she may have more cricketer friends.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><strong>Everyday, there&#8217;s a new story about you&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;d like to make it very clear that all accusations levelled against me by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Sunday-Times\">Sunday Times<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/London\">London<\/a>\u00a0edition, of me being involved in the Indo-Pak semi-final match-fixing scam, are not true. Now, they are putting up articles on my personal life &#8211; of me being involved or dating Sri Lankan cricketer Dilshan Tillakaratne &#8211; I mean, I&#8217;m completely confused as to what they want to accuse me of. Do they want to dig up my personal life, or they want to claim I am involved in match-fixing? Now, they are saying I was seen in London during the T20 World Cup &#8211; suddenly there are so many issues. I am coping boldly, as I am a very bold person, and as for my decision to sue the paper &#8211; I am considering it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cn6BJM58P4Y&amp;feature=endscreen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U2OmpH40yNA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":35522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1782,2248,2247],"class_list":["post-35521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","tag-corruption-in-cricket","tag-dilshan-tillakaratne-nupur-mehta-match-fixing","tag-nupur-mehta-and-dilshan-tillakaratne"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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