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CBI team to give ICC info on Stewart

Shyam Bhatia
India Abroad Correspondent in London

A team of sleuths from the Central Bureau of Investigation is expected in London next month to exchange information on match fixing with the International Cricket Council, reliable sources told India Abroad.

The CBI is said to have information relevant to allegations that Surrey and England wicketkeeper-batsman Alec Stewart received some £5,000 from alleged bookie Mukesh Gupta.

Stewart has denied the allegations, but it emerged in London on Tuesday that he has yet to be interviewed by the ICC team headed by Lord Paul Condon, which has prepared an eighty-page report into corruption in cricket.

In his report, extracts of which have been leaked to the media, Condon alludes to allegations that the seeds of cricket corruption may have been sown in England in the 1970s when country and club games were allegedly fixed.

He also says some players and others continue to act dishonestly, although the most blatant forms of match fixing have stopped.

Condon's report was presented on Tuesday to the ICC's Code of Conduct Committee, headed by Lord Griffiths and including Richie Benaud, Oliver Popplewell, Sir Denys Williams and Chief Justice Nasim Shah of Pakistan. The full report is to be made available to the public on Wednesday.

According to Condon, significant information exists about corruption and allegations "in the public domain" are only the tip of the iceberg.

"I have spoken to people who have been threatened and others who have alleged a murder and a kidnapping linked to cricket corruption," he adds. "In order to respond to their anxieties I have interviewed some people away from their lifestyles."

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