England’s Test captain, Andrew Strauss, has raised questions about the functions of the anti-corruption unit of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Strauss was part of last year’s controversial series against Pakistan where an English tabloid ‘News of the World’ broke the story about Pakistani bowlers bowling deliberate no-balls in the Lords Test.
As a result, former Pakistan captain Salman Butt, and match-winning bowling pair of, Mohammad Amir, and,Mohammad Asif, are facing lengthy bans from all forms of cricket.
The feft-handed opener believes that majority of match-fixing and corruption in the game stems from the Subcontinent, especially India. However, he does not agree that match-fixing is exclusive to players from South East Asia.
He criticized the performance of the anti-corruption unit and said that they do not have enough facilities to combat match-fixing and corruption in cricket.
There have been a number of question marks about some of the matches of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 as well, including England’s encounter against India, which turned out to be a tie. Ironically, former Australian leg spinner, Shane Warne, had posted on his Twitter account before the match that it will be a tie.
England’s Test captain believes that there is a lot more corruption in the game and majority of the people do not even have an idea about it. He hopes that the bans imposed on some international cricketers will turn out to be good for the game.
However, Strauss is not positive that this cancer will be eliminated from the game permanently.
"My gut feeling is there is more to it than we know about. I am still hopeful that good will come out of it. But they certainly don't seem to be getting anywhere nearer to the bottom of the whole spot fixing/match-fixing saga”, Strauss added.
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