The ICC has concluded its investigation into the ‘Cricket’s Match Fixers’ documentary by Al Jazeera on 27 May 2018. No charges will be bought under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code against any of the five Participants to the Code who featured in the program due to insufficient credible and reliable evidence.
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The comprehensive investigation focused on three main areas: the claims made by the program, the suspects who were part of it, and how the program gathered evidence.
The program alleged that two matches were fixed including India v England in Chennai in 2016 and India v Australia in Ranchi in 2017. To assess whether the passages of play highlighted in the program 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 program as being allegedly fixed were entirely predictable, and therefore implausible as a fix.
All five Participants to the Code who featured in the program have been interviewed by the ICC Integrity Unit and there is insufficient evidence based on the normal thresholds applied through the Code to lay any charges.
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Alex Marshall, ICC General Manager – Integrity said: “We welcome the reporting of alleged corrupt activity within cricket as there is no place for such conduct in our sport, but we also need to be satisfied there is sufficient evidence to sustain charges against Participants. In the case of the claims aired in this program, there are fundamental weaknesses in each of the areas we have investigated that make the claims unlikely and lacking in credibility, a viewpoint that has been corroborated by four independent experts.
“Should any new substantial evidence come to light I will re-examine the case. But at present, I am comfortable with the conclusion of the investigation and the thoroughness with which it was undertaken.”
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