ICC to probe Australia-Zimbabwe World Cup match
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has carried out an inquiry of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and Zimbabwe World Cup game, played at Ahmedabad on February 21.
ICC was alarmed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558 and Brad Haddin’s slow batting in the first 10 overs of the innings against Rhodesians. The two Aussie openers scored only 28 runs in the 11 overs and just 53 in the 15 while batting in the powerplay. Though, Australia ultimately
won the match comfortably but the slow rate of scoring in the initial overs was inspected by the ICC anti-corruption and security unit.
The specter of spot-fixing has been looming over international cricket for quite a sometime. International Cricket Council has recently took serious steps by hauling up http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-Butt-c2418, after being found guilty of deliberately
bowling no-balls during the fourth Test against England last year.
The Anti Corruption and Security Unit is keeping a vigilant eye on all the matches, being played in the World Cup 2011. The slow start by Aussie openers caught their attention and ICC ACSU had carried out a quiet examination of the match after questions
were raised over the slow start taken by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 and Haddin.
Australian team coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Timothy-John-Nielsen-c94043 has safeguarded his opening batsmen saying that both players batted slowly according to the circumstances. The coach further said, "I thought they played well in game one. Everyone had this perception that they went slowly.
But if http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 were going to be competitive against us, they needed to take early wickets with their spinners. We're playing the way we think is the right way to play,"
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 is in a mood of taking no chances at all and all the World Cup games are under intense scanning. A number of former players have already expressed fears that the format of the World Cup has many windows opened for bookmakers to try to corrupt players
in the tournament.
In spot-fixing bookies take bets on particular phases of a game, like how many runs would be scored in five overs or after ten overs and so on. Plenty of fuss was also raised over the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Keith-Warne-c89672 accurately
tweeted 7 hours before the launch of the match that it would be a draw.
Warne tweet could have been just a hunch but it is strange, how one could predict a tie so early before a match. The cricket experts have also showed their reservations over Kamran Akmal’s mis-stumpings in the game against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
The situation is warming up as the World Cup is going towards final rounds and ICC is extremely alert and ready to take stern actions if they smell anything wrong.
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