International Cricket Council (ICC) president Ehsan Mani has said that match-fixing has largely been controlled, but did not rule out "chances of match-fixing" and involvement of individuals.
"We have put in a lot of efforts to eliminate match-fixing and have gained success in it, but there might be chances that individuals may be involved in turning the fate of a match and the ICC was working in this direction to find ways to control it," Mani said while addressing a press conference at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
Mani said, "No one can claim the game is 100 per cent clean and free from corruption. Individually some people may be involved." He said ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) had made significant improvement in overcoming match-fixing and now it was trying to address the match-fixing issue related to individuals.
Mani explained that after formation of ACU everyone involved in the game was cautious that someone had been watching him and so the menace of match-fixing was coming to an end in cricket.
He elaborated that till 2000, ICC did nothing to stop match-fixing while its board members had been trying to hide such affairs only to save their country from earning a bad name.
But now the ICC has been dealing with it and making efforts to tackle the issue, the ICC chief said.
- UNI
