ICC finds no evidence in allegations

The Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of the ICC has said that allegations of match-fixing referred to in Indian press involving Australian spinner Shane Warne in recent days were old wounds, now closed. Warne has already issued a denial.

Warne was prompted to do so by allegations in an Indian magazine that an unidentified Delhi businessman had approached the ACSU through a third party and claimed that he saw Warne and Brian Lara, the West Indies captain, in the company of the suspected match-fixer, Ratan Mehta, at the Pizza Pomodero restaurant in London during the 1999 World Cup.

In a letter written by ACSU chief Lord Condon to the Pakistan Cricket Board Mehta was suggested as “the person primarily reponsible” for arranging the underprformance of Pakistan in two matches in one-day tournaments held in Kenya and Morocco in 2002.