ICC In Process Of Identifying Fixing Mastermind Based In Delhi

The International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit (ACU) is hoping to publicly identify a corruption mastermind in New Delhi soon, based on pieces of evidence gathered from players and

"We will look to have that person named as an excluded person and then anyone in cricket who has had fair warning and associates with him will be in trouble. That is not the purpose of it but if we have a number of allegations identifying one person we will start the process of excluding them. We are doing the first one or two right now," he further said.

Fixers are now thinking imaginatively amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has forced corruptors to think imaginatively, notably faking a tournament, the Uva T20 League, in Sri Lanka which was actually being held in Sawara Village in Mohali.

"They said it was in Sri Lanka but it was in India and they tried to run an entire cricket tournament that did not actually exist by publishing pictures of a ground the dressed up as if it was in Sri Lanka with advertising and everything, but was in India and was raided by the police," Marshall said. He said that players who are from poorer countries and whose wages have been affected by the pandemic are the chief targets.

"If you are offering a Zimbabwe player $10,000-30,000 -- and by the way almost always the young poor black Zimbabwe players report immediately to us -- that is the equivalent of buying a house," said Marshall.