Aljazeera allegations on match - fixing not credible - ICC

The three-year-long investigation of ICC  into allegations of match-fixing has put Aljazeera credibility to question.  An Aljazeera TV documentary in 2018 linking England and Australia players being involved in spot-fixing in two Test matches in India, in 2016 and 2017, has been rejected.

 

In 2018, TV channel Al Jazeera released two documentaries titled 'Cricket's Match Fixers' which portrayed various forms of corruption in cricket.

 

However, the ICC disagreed. "The programme alleged that two matches were fixed: India v England in Chennai in 2016 and India v Australia in Ranchi in 2017," the ICC said in a media release on Monday. "To assess whether the passages of play highlighted in the programme were unusual in any way, the ICC engaged four independent betting and cricketing specialists to analyze the claims. All four concluded that the passages of play identified in the programme as being allegedly fixed were entirely predictable, and therefore implausible as a fix."

 

Among the five participants were former Sri Lanka allrounder Dilhara Lokuhettige and former Pakistan batsman Hasan Raza. The other three participants were Jeevantha Kulatunga and Thanridnu Mendis (both provincial coaches employed by Sri Lanka Cricket) and Indika Tharanga, an assistant manager at Galle International Stadium.