Watson, Haddin got calls from bookie-linked gangster

Australian cricketers Shane Watson and Brad Haddin were approached by a suspected Mumbai gangster, linked with bookmakers in India, during the tour of England last year, a media report claimed on Tuesday. A report in the Sydney Morning Herald said 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 last year. "Both players had immediately reported the approaches to the authorities and neither is suspected of any wrongdoing," the newspaper said. The report has come after spot-fixing allegations against several Pakistani cricketers, including captain Salman Butt, have shocked the world cricket.