ICC Probed Eight International Players for Spot Fixing in Last One Year

International Cricket Council Anit Corruption Unit has probed eight International players for spot-fixing in the last one year. Interestingly, out of these eight players, five are likely to be skippers of full member countries. Furthermore, there are also other three former International players. In fact, the cases of spot-fixing have increased massively in the recent past. Meanwhile, Indian bookies have been at the top of the list.

On the other hand, Alex Marshall who is the General Manager of the ICC ACU didn’t provide a clear picture of the matter. In fact, the ICC has come out with 32 investigations in the last one year.

The spot-fixing cases have manifolded.

Meanwhile, one of the positive sign for the governing body is 23 approaches are reported by the players themselves.

“Getting through a team’s skipper is the most important and they are the favourites for all bookies because they can help influence all sorts of things, field settings, bowling changes and of course the playing XI. At this point, we are sure that there is no match-fixing in cricket anymore but the corrupters are resorting to spot-fixing and disrupting sessions in the game,” says Marshall.

On the other hand, the ever-rising popularity of T20 leagues has made it difficult for ICC to keep a check.

“T20 leagues provide ideal opportunities to the corrupters along with rising popularity of under 19 cricket and women’s cricket. But still its the explosion of T20 cricket that is the worrying factor and makes us work hard,” says Marshall.

Consequently, ICC has held 127 workshops which involve players participation in the last one year. In fact, each of the sessions is 15 minutes long. The sessions involve guidance to make the players aware of how the approaches have been made.