Cricket Australia knows the names of players in corruption probe: Mark Taylor

Former Australian captain Mark Taylor said that Cricket Australia knows the names of two players who are named in the corruption probe. Recently, Al Jazeera documentary has claimed that two unnamed Australian players were involved in the match-fixing.

According to the documentary, two Aussie batsmen were asked to play slow in the drawn Test match held in Ranchi. However, Cricket Australia hasn’t unveiled these two players.

Taylor also confirmed that the two players have spoken to the Cricket Australia’s officials regarding their allegations.

ICC have their Work Cut out.

While speaking to Sports Sunday, Mark Taylor said, “It talks about two runs off an over. It talks about a series of six overs where there wasn’t a lot of runs scored, that happens in India all the time. The more of these games (we have) it’s going to allow more and more opportunity for the match fixers and the people that want to do wrong by the game. There’s no doubt match-fixing is a major issue for cricket and will be for quite a number of years.”

Meanwhile, ICC CEO Dave Richardson believes that the domestic T20 league provide a gateway for the people to contaminate the game. Richardson adds that it is pivotal to make sure that these things are well taken care of.

Richardson said in a statement, “I think those leagues do provide an additional opportunity for the people that want to get involved and try and fix. So what we need to make sure is that anyone staging a T20 domestic tournament, especially televised, that they have in place minimum standards for dealing with the problem. To make sure they have an anti-corruption code in place that is applicable to the tournament, that all the players are educated. We are monitoring the franchise owners, the people involved in the tournament, doing due diligence.”

Richardson added that the other boards staging the league tournament should have a proper anti-corruption unit. Dave also added the tournament organised by the boards should involve ICC into the process.

Richardson went on add, “Well, not necessarily at ICC, but certainly in conjunction with our members. So it’s going to be case in the future that before any approval is given for these types of tournaments. These happen outside the full members, they’ve got to show that they’ve either got the ICC involved. They need to set up an anti-corruption unit, or the tournament doesn’t take place. We’ve got to take much sterner action in the future.”