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ICC probes Pakistan one-dayer at Oval
September 19, 2010, Sunday
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THE Pakistan team faced new allegations of spot-fixing yesterday after the ICC launched an investigation into Friday's one-day international against England in London, just three weeks after one of the sport's biggest betting scandals emerged on the tour.
The latest probe is based on information received by the International Cricket Council before Friday's match from a British tabloid newspaper, which claimed that a scoring pattern in Pakistan's innings was prearranged.
"A source informed The Sun newspaper that a certain scoring pattern would emerge during certain stages of the match and, broadly speaking, that information appeared to be correct," ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said in a statement.
"We therefore feel it is incumbent upon us to launch a full enquiry into this particular game although it is worth pointing out at this stage that we are not stating as fact that anything untoward has occurred."
The Sun said it would not publish exact details of the fixing because it could damage the ICC investigation.
The investigation comes on the heels of a previous fixing scandal on Pakistan's tour, when a player agent allegedly received money for organizing players to bowl no-balls at prearranged times in the final test against England last month so as to fix spot betting markets.
Pakistan's 23-run victory over England on Friday had kept the ODI series alive and initially shifted some of the attention away from the previous fixing allegations.
But even before the match started at The Oval, the ICC was being told by The Sun that bookmakers in India and Dubai knew details of scoring patterns in Pakistan's innings and two suspect overs.
The Sun said it had passed on the information after it received details of calls between a notorious Dubai-based match fixer and a Delhi bookie.
"Cricket chiefs then watched as Pakistan's score mirrored the target that bookies had been told in advance by a fixer," the newspaper said.
The Sun's report said ICC officials began their investigations even before Pakistan's innings had ended, and that "it is not thought that the overall result was fixed, only scoring rates in parts of Pakistan's innings."
The latest allegations puts the viability of the two remaining matches in the ODI series into doubt, with the England and Wales Cricket board holding an emergency meeting to discuss the situation later yesterday.
The earlier no-ball fixing allegations resulted in the ICC suspending Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir while a fourth Pakistan player Wahab Riaz was questioned by Scotland Yard last week.
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