A Sri Lankan minister has admitted that the country’s cricket board has been ranked the world’s most corrupt by the sport’s governing body, after a series of scandals have rocked the administration.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) feels "Sri Lanka's cricket administration is corrupt from top to bottom", said sports minister Harin Fernando said, after meeting with officials, including ICC anti-corruption chief Alex Marshall, in Dubai.
"Unfortunately Sri Lanka is being ranked as one of the worst or the top worst country for cricket corruption," Fernando added. "They told me that the problem was not limited to bookies, but even the local game's links with the underworld.”
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