In fact, going at the rate at which cricketers alone are increasingly being held responsible for the entire fixing mess plaguing the Indian Premier League (IPL), 'Operation Clean-Up' is presently running the huge risk of turning out into a mere cosmetic surgery.
The bigger fix, that has to do with the involvement of BCCI president N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra in cricket betting, is a matter still waiting to be heard in the Supreme Court.
The Board's self-appointed two-member disciplinary panel will meet in Delhi on Friday to discuss the fate of the three Rajasthan Royals cricketers - Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and S Sreesanth.
The panel, comprising BCCI vice-presidents Arun Jaitley and Niranjan Shah, will also deliberate on the report submitted by Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ravi Sawani on the spot-fixing allegations against the players in the much-tainted Indian Premier League (IPL).
The panel has summoned the players, along with Harmeet Singh and Siddharth Trivedi - names which had cropped up during investigations - for the disciplinary meeting.
However, it could not be confirmed if Chandila, who is facing the most serious of charges among them all, will attend because the disciplinary committee rules say that a week's notice has to be sent to the player in advance to summon him and Chandila, who got bail earlier this week, hasn't received one.
Chandila, Chavan and Sreesanth face the risk of a lifeban and if that happens, 'Operation Clean-Up ' also runs the risk of wrapping up with this meeting for now. However, the final decision on the players is unlikely to come out on Friday and the Disciplinary Committee may only examine the report for now to table it in the AGM on September 29.
Until then, the BCCI may do well to figure if banning these three players alone is what their much-talked about 'Operation Clean-Up ' was all about.
To ban these players without taking into account what the Supreme Court has to say on the enquiry panel that was disbanded last month would be to simply sweep bigger concerns under the carpet.
Whether or not another enquiry committee needs to be appointed and whether it needs to be formed by the BCCI or remain independent of it will be determined by the apex court.
The fact that Meiyappan and Kundra still haven't been given the clean chit - with the SC adjourning the date - suggests there has clearly been no headway at all where investigations are concerned.
Sawani's investigation into these three Rajasthan Royals' cricketers activities during IPL and allegations of them conceding a pre-determined number of runs per over in exchange for cash is presently the only BCCI-backed probe that can be taken into account at the moment and while the cricketers deserved to be punished if found guilty, the board cannot ignore the more important factors related to the matter.
Chandila, Sreesanth and Chavan have served jail during this time and are presently out on bail with their contracts being terminated by the Rajasthan franchise. The three cricketers, and also those whose names cropped up and have turned witnesses since, have denied all allegations of betting and fixing against them.
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