Ex-Mumbai Cricketer Robin Morris Among Five Arrested For Alleged Kidnapping: Report
Updated - 05 Dec 2019, 06:36 PM
In a shocking turn of events, former Mumbai first-class cricketer Robin Morris has been arrested along with four others in Mumbai over an alleged kidnapping. In a first-class career that spanned for nearly a decade, Robin Morris played 42 games between 1996 and 2004. He also played 51 List A games in addition to a couple of T20s.
As far as his records are concerned, he scored 1,358 runs in first-class cricket with the help of nine fifties. Robin Morris also picked up 76 wickets with the red ball. In List A cricket, he scored 1,397 runs with the help of 1 century and 9 fifties. With the white-ball, he picked up 46 wickets. Later, he also plied his trade in the rebel Indian Cricket League, representing Mumbai Champs.
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The kidnapping:
Things have not really fallen into place for Robin Morris after his cricket career came to an end. According to Indian Express, he was recently nabbed by police for an alleged kidnapping. According to the news outlet, the case revolves around an unsuccessful attempt by Morris to obtain a loan.
“Morris wanted a loan of Rs 3 crore [USD 410,000 approx] a few years ago. He got in touch with the complainant [a loan agent] through a mutual friend,” a police officer was quoted as saying by the news outlet.
However, “The complainant took a commission but failed to provide Rs 3 crore loan sanction to Morris”.
After this, “Morris along with his four accomplices decided to call him to a restaurant in Kurla and forcefully took him to [Morris’ residence in] Versova”, before calling the loan agent’s family members and demanding the remainder of the commission be returned.”
“The family instead approached us and we registered a case.”
This is not the first time, Robin Morris has made it to the news for wrong reasons. Last year, he was named by news channel Al Jazeera, following the channel’s alleged sting operation into fixing in cricket. Former Pakistan batsman Hasan Raza was filmed on camera by Al Jazeera, sitting adjacent to Morris as the latter spoke to an undercover reporter about facilitating spot-fixing in T20 tournaments.
Morris, however, had denied any wrongdoing, saying that the channel invited him “to audition for, and act in, a commercial movie for public entertainment”.
