Latest fixing reports won't bother PCB unless ICC intervenes

Islamabad, Mar 14 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said it will not give credibility to the report about match-fixing in a British newspaper only if the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Anti-Corruption and Security Unit takes up the matter with it.

"The report only becomes creditable to us if the ICC steps into the scene and contacts us and takes us into confidence the allegations made by this bookmaker," the Daily Times quoted a senior board official, as saying.

"So far the ICC has said nothing to us and already this bookmaker is threatening to sue the newspaper for different reasons," he added.

The official said when it came to dealing with sensitive issues like match-fixing and spot-fixing, one had to take the evidence on board.

"Without any solid evidence we are not going to give any credibility to this report. Let us see what evidence this newspaper can produce in future to back the claims made by the bookmaker," he said. (ANI)