Ian Chappell slams ICC, Boards for doing little against corruption
21 Nov 2013 5:05 AM IST
Delivering a keynote address at the ‘ESPNcricinfo at 20’ event in Brisbane, Chappell said so far only ‘soft targets’ have got the punishment for corruption from cricket administrators.
‘I would like cricket administrators to get back to where priority number one is... I think now the most important issue for cricket administration is corruption. I can’t think of anything other than corruption that can bring this game down,’ Chappell said.
‘I think if you look at the history of people who have been pinged with corruption charges, not much of it has come from cricket. Not much of it has come from the anti-corruption unit. Most of it has come from television stings, newspaper stings,’ he said.
‘If you look at what cricket has done, the only convictions cricket has got seem to me to be very, very soft targets,’ he added.
‘I would like cricket administrators to get back to where priority number one is... I think now the most important issue for cricket administration is corruption. I can’t think of anything other than corruption that can bring this game down,’ Chappell said.
‘I think if you look at the history of people who have been pinged with corruption charges, not much of it has come from cricket. Not much of it has come from the anti-corruption unit. Most of it has come from television stings, newspaper stings,’ he said.
‘If you look at what cricket has done, the only convictions cricket has got seem to me to be very, very soft targets,’ he added.
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