Match Fixing News

ACB urge ICC to form body to deal with bribery allegations

SYDNEY: Australian cricket bosses have called for more action from the International Cricket Council on the bribery issue as officials prepare for two significant meetings over the next week.
Australian Test players Shane Warne and Mark Waugh will give evidence publicly to a Pakistan inquiry in Melbourne on Friday. Next Sunday and Monday the ICC will meet in Christchurch, New Zealand, with the bribery issue on the agenda. ACB Chief Executive Malcolm Speed said the ICC must consider forming a committee which could travel the world to deal with issues such as bribery allegations. Speed says it is time the ICC took control away from the member countries on matters such as bribery and match-fixing. "What we are saying is we want a mechanism to be put in place to deal with this, there are a number of options," Speed told a news conference. "We hope there is some  direction from the ICC." Australian officials believe Waugh and Warne should suffer no further punishment because they have been fined and ACB Chairman Denis Rogers said he hoped the
ICC conference did not cloud the overall issue of match-fixing and bribery. "They have a vital role to play in these bribery issues," Rogers said. "We support the governing body being empowered to take action." Rogers called for standard penalties and a review board. He admitted some countries might resist more power for the ICC.
 
 

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