• Al-Jazeera alleges 26 scams in 15 international matches
• England players ‘batted to order’ in seven of them, it is claimed
An al-Jazeera documentary has claimed that 15 international cricket matches in 2011 and 2012 were the subject of 26 spot-fixing scams, with “a small group” of England players alleged to have been involved on seven occasions.
Cricket’s Match-Fixers: The Munawar Files is the follow-up to the Qatar-based news network’s previous such programme in May this year. It looks into the movements of Aneel Munawar, an alleged operative for the Indian crime syndicate D-Company who was recently the subject of a public appeal by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit.
Written by Ali Martin
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/21/english-players-26-spot-fixing-international-matches-al-jazeera-cricket under the title “England players among top cricketers in new ‘spot-fixing’ claims”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
