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Cricket anti-corruption chief denies failures over Pakistan betting scandal
he head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit denied today that the ICC was failing to identify corruption within the sport, as the three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of an alleged betting scam were being questioned by police.
Speaking for the first time since the allegations surfaced, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the former Northern Ireland police chief who was appointed chair of the cricket governing body's anti-corruption and security unit (ACSU) three months ago, said match-fixing was "not a contagion that's widespread throughout cricket".
"If these charges are proven, I congratulate the News of the World," Flanagan said. "They were brought to light in ways the ICC can't engage in; ways the ICC would not like to engage in.