ICC Chief steps up fight on fixing, soon going to meet Al Jazeera officials

The International Cricket Council Chief Executive Dave Richardson soon going to  meet officials of Qatar based  Al Jazeera channel that asserts to have excavated 'spot-fixing' and 'pitch-fixing' in Test matches through a sting operation.

The three matches which are  India vs Sri Lanka (Galle, July 26-29, 2017), India vs Australia (Ranchi, March 16-20, 2017) and India vs England (Chennai, December 16-20, 2016) are in big doubt. The allegations made by Al Jazeera in documentary can not brushed under the carpet.

As per reported in  cricket news website Wah Cricket "I am always concerned if people are talking about fixing in cricket. I am a little perturbed by any accusation that we would attempt to sweep it under the carpet, or pretend that nothing has happened," Richardson was quoted as saying by 'The Independent'.

"So we will investigate fully. We are meeting with them (Al-Jazeera) in the next couple of days," he added.

"So what we need to make sure is that anyone staging a T20 domestic tournament especially televised that they have in place minimum standards. To make sure they have an anti-corruption code in place, that all the players are educated, and that we are monitoring the franchise owners, the people involved in the tournament, doing due diligence," said.

"Having said that, with T20 coming to the fore, we recognise that potentially it could become a bigger risk going forward. Slowly and surely, you'll see the volume of tests that we conduct increasing," he added.

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