ICC probes pitch-fixing charges involving Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: The International Cricket Council pronounced Saturday it was questioning allegations that a Sri Lankan groundsman had concluded to breach with a representation to change a outcome of an arriving Test compare opposite England.

The ICC pronounced it took a allegations reported in an Al Jazeera documentary “very seriously” and urged “all justification and ancillary material” to be common with a investigators.

An allege news on a documentary, that will be promote on Sunday, pronounced dual Sri Lankans and a former Indian actor were held deliberating how to supply England’s opening Test opposite Sri Lanka in November.

“We have already launched an review operative with anti-corruption colleagues from member countries formed on a singular information we have received,” a ICC pronounced in a statement.

It also called for a evident recover of any justification and ancillary element to capacitate a anti-corruption section to “undertake a full and extensive investigation”.

The London-based Daily Telegraph pronounced late Friday that a Al Jazeera footage seen by a journal featured Robin Morris, a former veteran cricketer from Mumbai, India, Tharindu Mendis, a actor from Colombo, and Tharanga Indika, an partner manager during Galle International Stadium.

The journal reported that a footage showed a group articulate about doctoring pitches during a assembly with an clandestine reporter.

The group were reportedly deliberating ways to ready a representation to safeguard that a initial Test during a Galle belligerent would not finish in a pull and would produce a outcome in reduction than 4 days.

Sri Lanka’s cricket house pronounced it was wakeful of a allegations and was formulation on arising a statement.

The former curator of a Galle International Stadium, Jayananda Warnaweera, is already underneath an ICC anathema for 3 years until Jan 2019 for unwell to concur with an anti-corruption investigation.

Warnaweera, a former Test player, had unsuccessful to attend interviews with a ICC’s anti-corruption unit. He had been formerly handed a two-year anathema by a internal house over a same allegations.

Sri Lankan players and umpires have been indicted of compare regulating in a past, though Warnaweera is a top ranking central punished so far.

Although no big-name Sri Lankan actor has ever been convicted of corruption, several former stars have done allegations of possibly compare regulating or spot-fixing — when players deliberately play or margin badly to give divided a set series of runs.—AFP

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