Al Jazeera has postponed their meeting with International Cricket Council (ICC) over the spot-fixing investigation as they claimed that the upcoming meeting would be ‘premature’.
Recently, Al Jazeera revealed a sting operation over the match-fixing in the recent cricket matches including the international level. That sting operation revealed some serious match-fixing scandals which have recently taken place in India and Sri Lanka.
According to that sting operation, three English cricketers and two Australian cricketers were involved in the match-fixing.
After that sting operation broke out, ICC requested Al Jazeera for the detail reports including the unedited version of that whole sting operation.
While both parties were likely going to meet recently over this serious investigation, Al Jazeera has postponed their meetings with the cricket’s governing body.
The Qatar based media network said in their statement, “with regard to a potential meeting with the ICC, the broadcaster had to take into account ongoing legal considerations, including potential criminal investigations into the spot-fixing allegations in Sri Lanka and India. That being the case, a meeting with the ICC would be premature at this stage.”
They further added, “It should also be borne in mind that in certain respects the broadcast puts the ICC itself under the spotlight, although we are confident that this will not ultimately be a bar to cooperation in due course.”
Meanwhile, ICC CEO David Richardson claimed that they couldn’t take any decision over this before getting all the documents related that sting operation.
Richardson said on that, “I ask Al Jazeera to release to us all the material they have relating to corruption in cricket. We will conduct a full, thorough and fair investigation and will ensure no stone is left unturned as we examine all allegations of corruption made in the programme. To do so, we need to see all the evidence they state they possess.
“I am encouraged by their public commitment to cooperate and now ask that they do so, in releasing all relevant material. We understand and fully respect the need to protect journalistic sources and our ACU team have worked with other media companies on that basis. However, to prove or disprove these allegations, we need to see the evidence referred to in the programme.”
