Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 chief calls for external probe by ICC
After Andrew Strauss had called for the International Cricket Council to eradicate corruption in cricket, the Cricket Australia chief, James Sutherland has said that the ICC should have an independent probe conducted into corruption in the sport.
Sutherland wants the probe to be conducted by independent authorities in such a manner that the recommendations last for a long period of time.
In the past, there have been probes conducted by individual cricket boards like the Condon report in 2001, Qayyum in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 in 2000, and the Justice Chandruchud report
in the 2000s. However, according to Sutherland, the changing nature of the world often rendered the reports redundant very quickly.
Sutherland said that of the recommendations which the probes had suggested, some of them did get implemented. But, he questioned the relevance of some of the methods to counter the issues associated with corruption. Sutherland said, "How many of those recommendations
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.”
Sutherland said on the Cricket Australia website that the probe should re-examine all these issues and only a highly-credential external expert would be able to perform such a review.
Before this, when the match-fixing scandal had first broken out in the sub-continent in the 1990s, it was being investigated by Justice Mohammad Qayyum, a retired High Court judge. He had recommended a ban on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salim-c88143 Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman but some of his more
relevant suggestions were not implemented. One of them was to probe into the players’ assets on an annual basis.
Sutherland also said that while it was shocking to hear of the recent match-fixing controversies, if the charges did get proven then the authorities will have enough proof of the sport being a corrupted one. He added, "That in itself, 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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