Match fixing claims ahead of third Ashes test

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has complete faith that the Ashes have not been compromised nor are any Australian players implicated in match‑fixing activities despite an explosive report which leaked today.

Cricket was today rocked in the hours leading up to the third Ashes Test by allegations published in UK newspaper The Sun, which claimed to have evidence of bookmakers offering to sell details of fixed parts of the WACA Test.

But Sutherland remained confident that the Test and Ashes in total, as well as all players and officials involved, had not been corrupted.

Sutherland, along with his ECB counterpart Tom Harrison and ICC CEO David Richardson, joined a conference call briefing from the head of the ICC anti‑corruption unit, Alex Marshall, soon after the story broke.

Sutherland said in Perth that what they heard from Alex Marshall, is that there’s no evidence, substance or justification based on the collection of information the ICC’s received from the news outlet based on ICC intelligence in previous investigations.

Source: FoxSports