A UK newspaper, the Sunday Times has reported that the International Cricket Council’s Anti Corruption and Security Unit had made a secret report of match-fixing in the second edition of the Indian Premier League.
According to the newspaper, this report consisted of the names of 29 cricketers who were said to have been involved in match-fixing.
The newspaper alleged that there were some irregular betting patterns which had pushed the ACSU into action.
Officially, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had not taken the services of the ACSU. Usually, any international match or tournament needs to have the ACSU guidelines associated with it.
However, given that the IPL is a domestic tournament, the
erstwhile chairman, Lalit Modi had not deemed it necessary to utilize the services of the ACSU.
Modi had then claimed that the ACSU had asked for a fee of $1.2 million to cover the entire tournament.
However, in another twist, the BCCI had then asked Modi to hire the services of the ACSU for the third edition of the IPL, given that the rumblings had begun to grow that match-fixing could rear its ugly head up.
The Indian cricket board had then paid out $1.5 million for the same in the third edition of the tournament.
Predictably, the ICC has denied knowledge of any such incident. They also said that they had no knowledge of this list.
What is surprising about the report is that it says that none of the English or Pakistani cricketers were involved in the match-fixing, because none of them took part in the tournament.
However, some English players, including Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, had played in the tournament.
The Indian cricket board has said that the ICC hadn’t afforded them any knowledge of any such report. |
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