New Delhi, Jun 25 (UNI) Steve Richardson, the coordinator of investigations at the ICC's anti-corruption unit (ACU) feels that making match-fixing a criminal offence in India will be a 'game-changer' and the 'single-most-effective thing' to protect the cricket from corruption.
Many legal experts have been advocating for years the need to criminalise match-fixing in India. Due to lack of a strong law, often the hands of authorities have been tied during investigating corruption cases in the popular sport.
'At the moment with no legislation in place, we’ll have good relations with Indian police, but they are operating with one hand tied behind their back. We will do everything we can to disrupt the corrupters. And we do, we make life very, very difficult for them as far and as much as we can to stop them from operating freely,' ESPNcricinfo quoted Richardson as saying.