Even as the cricket watching public comes to terms with the news that former Indian pace bowler S Sreesanth along with two of his Rajasthan Royals teammates have been arrested for spot fixing, an interesting fact that has come to light is that messaging services like WhatsApp and BBM were used by the players and bookies to coordinate.

Times Now reported that the Delhi police had around 70 phones under surveillance during their probe into spot fixing in the IPL and were tracking messaging software like Whatsapp and Blackberry Messenger.

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Source: Sreesanth arrest: WhatsApp, BBM the latest tech tools in Match fixing? - Firstpost