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ACB reinforces calls for life bans for cheats |
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April
28, 2000
MELBOURNE, APR 27 (AP) - Australian Cricket Board chairman Dennis Rogers has reinforced calls to impose life bans on cricketers Found guilty of match fixing. Rogers on Thursday said he was planning to suggest the absolute. Penalty at an emergency meeting of the International Cricket Council Board at cricket headquarters at Lord's, in London, next week. The meeting was called in the wake of the bribery scandal which Rocked the game earlier this month when South African skipper Hansie Cronje admitted to receiving money from an Indian bookmaker in exchange for information. "My own view ... is that if a player is proven beyond doubt to be guilty of match fixing, then it's only sensible that the cricket public and administrators should respond and say it's life," said Rogers. "There's no second chances on this. If there is anyone who is responsible, who is a player, then they have no right to play." Rogers, who is also on the ICC executive board, said it was fanciful to expect a permanent solution to match fixing to come out of the emergency meeting. But "the game belongs to the people and we therefore owe it to the people to get to the bottom of it," he said. Rogers rejected calls to reduce the number of limited-overs internationals sanctioned by the ICC, but said organizers should move to restore public confidence. "Some mischievous people have been trying to bring (cricket) undone and we've got to clear the game of that mischief as quickly as we can," he said. Police plus government and sporting authorities in India, South Africa and England were investigating match-fixing allegations and arrests had already been made in India
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