January 23 2016
Cricket’s anti-corruption police are looking into whether one major global betting syndicate is behind three fixing cases being investigated around the world.
Inquiries are at an advanced stage in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong into fixers who have targeted international and domestic cricket.
All three cases are being investigated by cricket’s own anti-corruption detectives in partnership with police forces in each country.
“One of the lines of investigation is whether there is any link between the syndicates behind these cases,” a source told The Sunday Telegraph. The cricket cases come at the same time as tennis fights its own corruption scandal after it emerged that over the last decade 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 have been suspected of throwing matches.