Fixing claims rock Hong Kong
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An alleged fixing approach to Hong Kong’s Irfan Ahmed is a “warning” for other emerging teams, the Chinese territory’s cricket chief said yesterday.
Tim Cutler, chief executive of the Hong Kong Cricket Association, said that associate, or non-test playing, members of the International Cricket Council were particularly vulnerable to match-fixers.
He was speaking after allrounder Ahmed, 26, was charged and provisionally suspended by the ICC for failing to report an alleged fixing offer.
Ahmed, who was slated for Hong Kong’s squad for the World Twenty20 championship in India in March, faces a ban of 2-5 years if found guilty.
Cutler said associate cricket nations, which cannot pay their players as well as test sides, were particularly susceptible to bribery and the “underbelly of the dark chapter of cricket”.
According to Australia’s Fairfax Media, Ahmed was approached by former Pakistani cricketer Nasem Gulzar, one of the alleged match-fixers accused of paying former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent to deliberately underperform in county matches in England.
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