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The International Cricket Council is investigating an alleged try to repair Sri Lankan Premier League matches attributable to begin Thursday, a media report stated. The grievance alleges a former nationwide cricketer approached a Lanka Premier League participant, and is being checked out by the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), the mass-circulating Lankadeepa stated. “The former national player who allegedly made the approach is currently overseas,” the newspaper stated, including that he had as soon as been accused, however later cleared, of match-fixing expenses by the ICC.
The ICC stated it could not talk about any ongoing investigation. The Sri Lanka board’s anti-corruption unit too declined remark.
The Twenty20 match opens Thursday with out spectators, however below the shut scrutiny of the ICC anti-corruption officers, the nationwide board and the sports activities ministry.
Last week, Sri Lanka’s former quick bowling coach Nuwan Zoysa stated he would enchantment a call of an ICC-appointed tribunal which discovered him responsible of three offences regarding match-fixing after a two-year investigation.
Cricket-crazy Sri Lanka launched a regulation in opposition to corruption in sport final 12 months after then-sports minister Harin Fernando declared that the ICC thought of the Indian Ocean island the world’s most corrupt cricket nation.
The Sri Lankan board and the ICC has performed anti-corruption programmes for gamers and officers and arrange a 24-hour hotline to report any “suspicious or corrupt activity.”
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The match will likely be Sri Lanka’s first high cricket since England abruptly pulled out of a two-match Test collection in March because the coronavirus pandemic unfold.
The begin was delayed 3 times due to coronavirus restrictions imposed by authorities to comprise the virus which has claimed 94 lives and contaminated practically 21,000 folks in Sri Lanka.
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