No evidence Ashes test under fixing threat, says ICC


  • Cricket
  • Thursday, 14 Dec 2017

Cricket - Ashes test match - Australia v England - WACA Ground, Perth, Australia, December 14, 2017. Cricket balls, a set of plastic stumps and a bat sit on the ground as members of the crowd wait for the start of play on day one of the third Ashes cricket test match. REUTERS/David Gray

PERTH (Reuters) - The ICC are taking allegations in a British newspaper about attempts to organise spot-fixing during the third Ashes test "extremely seriously" but do not think the match has been compromised, global cricket's governing body said on Thursday.

The Sun reported that underground bookmakers from India had offered to sell undercover reporters from the newspaper information about spot-fixing in the test between Australia and England, which starts in Perth on Thursday.

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