(UTV|COLOMBO) – Al Jazeera has hit back at criticism from world cricket’s governing body, the ICC, for not sharing evidence of match-fixing before broadcasting a documentary that has made headlines around the world.
Alex Marshall, the head of the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit, complained that Al Jazeera’s refusal to hand over all “unedited and unseen evidence” had “hampered” the ICC’s investigation”.
But a spokesman for Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit said the ICC’s complaints showed “a failure to understand investigative journalism; no self-respecting media entity in the world releases its evidence to any party pre-publication.”
The spokesman said the criticism also “overlooks the fact that concerns about … the ICC’s own governance of the game are a significant theme [and cause for concern] in the programme itself”.
The documentary, Cricket’s Match-Fixers, screened on Sunday and exposed widespread corruption in the game.
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