India has the most number of bookies for cricket in the world: ICC

New Delhi: NP NEWS 24 ONLINE – Indian cricket team is doing wonders in international cricket as it is in the top three International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking of all three formats. India is number 1 in test rankings and number 2 in One Day Internationals and T-20 Internationals. But ICC has revealed that India is number one is another field of cricket.

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International Cricket Council has said in its report that India has the most number of cricket bookies than any country at present. An officer from ICC said that during the investigation in Match Fixing and match betting most of the bookies which are found guilty are from India only.

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Alex Marshall, ACU general manager, gave this information when he was investigating in Sri Lanka Cricket Board corruption case.

This week Sanath Jayasuriya became the first high-profile Sri Lankan player to be charged by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit (ACU). But Jayasuriya, who denies any wrongdoing, could just be the start of something much bigger. The ACU has heightened its presence in Sri Lanka as it is extremely concerned by the suspected deep roots of cricket corruption in the country.

“During the briefing (to England and Sri Lanka players), we showed names and pictures of active corruptors in cricket who were trying to get at players both in Sri Lanka and at tournaments elsewhere in the world,” Marshall said.

“So we have openly shared the current information of active corruptors, we have shown their pictures, given their names and details. This way we felt the players are better informed. The exercise has already lead to new information coming forward from the teams.”

Marshall said that ICC is currently monitoring “12-20 active corruptors” while there is suspicion on at least six, who the players should be wary of.

“We showed them six. There are probably 12-20 very active corruptors that we are currently monitoring. The pictures shown were all men, but there are a couple of women, too, involved in the whole picture,” added Marshall.