- Three ICC investigations involve illegal approaches by fixers to captains
- Both women’s cricket and the under-19 game are believed to be vulnerable
- The bribes being offered are understood to reach as high as £150,000.
The credibility of international cricket is in question once more after it emerged that as many as seven separate corruption investigations are currently under way.
Three of those involve illegal approaches by fixers to international captains, of which two – to Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed and Zimbabwe’s Graeme Cremer – are already in the public domain.
But the number of incidents being looked into by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit highlights the scale of the task facing the Anti-Corruption Unit’s new general manager, Alex Marshall, a former chief constable of Hampshire.
It emerged up to seven separate corruption investigations are under way in cricket
Both women’s cricket and the under-19 game are thought to be vulnerable, with fixers targeting teenage players in the hope of corrupting them while they are still young.
Meanwhile, the bribes being offered are understood to reach as high as £150,000.
One of the new weapons at the ACU’s disposal is the ability to charge players who are suspected of wrongdoing but refuse to surrender their mobile phones for inspection.
Bans for non-compliance, which were introduced in September, could extend to two years.
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