Former Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin remained out of bounds to a battery of reporters who waited at his posh Banjara hills residence in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Amidst rumours of income tax raids on Azharuddin's house scores of media persons who rushed to his house were greeted with closed gates and "no response" from the cricketer named by CBI in its report on match-fixing.

However, income tax sources said no raids had been planned in the city on Tuesday. The former cricketer, whose alleged involvement in match fixing had rocked the cricketing world, neither responded to the calls nor did he acknowledge the presence of media outside his house seeking audience with him. Bureau Report