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New allegations of spot-fixing against “current and former Australian players”

by August 28th, 2018

A new wave of allegations of spot-fixing against “current and former Australian players” are set to be aired by the television news network al Jazeera in a follow-up to the investigative documentary aired earlier this year.

Cricket Australia has confirmed the allegations relate to “historical matches from 2011”, a year in which the national team concluded an ashes series, then took part in the 50-over world cup, bilateral tours of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and South Africa, then home matches against New Zealand and India.

The chief executive James Sutherland said a Cricket Australia integrity unit investigation had been conducted into the claims.

Acknowledgement of the allegations arrived on the same day the ICC requested information from the public about the identity of an individual filmed in the original documentary, named as Aneel Munawar and claiming to be the organiser of spot-fixing for illegal Indian betting syndicates.

Meanwhile the ICC and al Jazeera remain at odds over the network’s refusal to hand over to the governing body all raw footage recorded during their own investigations.

One of the sticking points has been the fact that among Munawar’s allegations was the suggestion that the ICC’s anti-corruption unit itself had been compromised by financial links to illegal bookmakers and Indian crime figures.

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