THE Australian cricketers Shane Watson and Brad Haddin were approached by a suspected Mumbai gangster with links to illegal bookmakers during the tour of England last year.
The Herald understands Watson was approached in the bar of the team's West London hotel, the Royal Kensington Garden, after the Lord's Test, and Haddin was confronted during the World Twenty20 tournament.
Both players immediately reported the approaches to authorities and neither is suspected of any wrongdoing.
The attempted corruption exposes the audacity of the betting underworld and follows explosive allegations that one of seven Pakistani players implicated in this week's spot-fixing scandal took bribes from bookmakers before flying to Australia last summer.
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