In 2022, 13 suspicious cricket matches were played across globe: Sportradar report

There had been 13 aggressive cricket matches that got here underneath the cloud of suspicion in 2022, in line with a evaluate report printed by Sportradar Integrity Services.

Sportradar Integrity Services unit is a global crew of certified integrity specialists who ship evaluation on irregular betting, match-fixing and different types of corruption in sports activities.

The 28-page report titled ‘Betting, Corruption and Match-Fixing’ states that in 2022, an unprecedented “1212 suspicious matches” had been detected throughout 12 sporting disciplines in 92 international locations.

The firm makes use of an software Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) to detect suspicious exercise throughout matches.

While soccer accounted for 775 matches, which presumably may have been corrupted, basketball is second within the record with 220 such video games, and garden tennis is third with 75 questionable video games.

Interestingly, amongst 12 sports activities, cricket solely has 13 allegedly corrupt video games and is sixth within the record. The report claims that 13 corrupt video games may nonetheless be the best for the game in a single yr.

“Although a number of sports continue to display relatively low numbers of suspicious matches, 13 suspicious cricket matches is still the highest annual figure recorded by Sportradar Integrity Services, and handball and futsal also recorded their highest ever number of suspicious matches,” the report acknowledged.

The PTI had despatched a questionnaire to Sportradar to grasp which format has been corrupted essentially the most and whether or not it’s worldwide video games or matches within the T20 leagues.

However, a have a look at the report states that the corporate shouldn’t be referring to any matches performed in India as per the graphics depicted within the report.

Therefore, one may confirm that not one of the 13 corrupt matches talked about within the report has been performed in India.

Sportradar, the truth is, had partnered with the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit in 2020 to detect betting irregularities throughout IPL matches.