http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 demands worldwide investigation into cricket corruption
Cricket Australia has urged the International Cricket Council to commission an autonomous review on corruption in the game, in the wake of spot-fixing allegations against some Pakistani cricketers. ICC had earlier announced a review of cricket’s existing
anti-corruption measures some 10 days back, on 14th September 2010, but still CA is demanding a worldwide investigation in this regard.
The Chief Executive of Cricket Australia, James Sutherland called for a worldwide investigation to be run independent of the cricket’s supreme governing body, ICC. He argued that the recent spot and match fixing mess has tainted the game severely and now
this is high time to free cricket from corruption.
A number of investigations have already been carried out in the past which include the Condon Report in 2001, South Africa’s King Commission Report in 2000, Australia's O'Regan Report in 1999 and Pakistan’s Qayyum Commission Report. However, Sutherland maintained
on Cricket Australia's official website that all these investigations were carried out almost a decade ago while the trends in cricket have changed a lot in the last ten years.
"There were a whole lot of recommendations that came through from that. How many of those have been put in place? Are they absolutely relevant to this day and age? The world has changed a lot in ten years. We're in far more of a digital age to where we were
before.” James Sutherland also wants an assessment of these investigation reports as soon as possible but at the same time, he made it clear that assigning the task of worldwide investigation to some internal person would not be appropriate. So, any highly-credentialed
external expert should do the review.
Malik Mohammad Qayyum – who was appointed in charge by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board in 1998 to examine the allegations of match-fixing against Salim Malik and few other Pakistani players - recently complained that his findings and recommendations were not fully
implemented by the ICC. One of these recommendations was that of an annual audit of the cricketers’ assets. Qayyum said that the current controversy could have been averted had the recommendations been fully implemented.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salim-c88143 Malik was served a life-time ban by the PCB following Qayyum Commission’s findings while several other players were also heavily fined. Meanwhile, the recent spot-fixing controversy mostly revolves around three no-balls bowled by Mohammad Amir and
Mohammad Asif during the Lords Test against England. It is alleged that these no-balls were deliberately bowled as both the pacers had some kind of deal with a bookie named http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed, who had paid them some £150,000.
The CA chief Sutherland added that such allegations had left him "shocked and saddened", which if proved right, could provide clear evidence regarding the existence of corruption in the game. "I actually see that as a positive that it comes out on the table
and is clear. It's positive in a sense that we can't deny it - we have to face the facts.”
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