Racism in English cricket extends to protecting white players accused of match fixing, claims undercover investigator

The recent Yorkshire racism scandal that tarnished English cricket goes beyond insulting and humiliating minorities and also extends to match-fixing, according to an undercover investigator who has penetrated and embedded himself in the underbelly of corruption in the sport.

The investigator, who prefers to remain anonymous because he continues to perform undercover work in sports corruption, said white players were largely ignored by authorities investigating suspicious activity in cricket, despite the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and ICC Anti-Corruption Unit possessing prima facie evidence implicating English and Australian players in matches from 2010 to 2017.

The ECB, in a response to the Post, dismissed the allegations and denied any bias. Australia’s cricket governing body had previously said they found no evidence of corruption after conducting its own investigation.

“As somebody who has been investigating cricket corruption since 2010, I can tell you first hand that we have been given – by a whistle-blower – persuasive evidence of corruption among the Australian and England teams, plus others,” the undercover investigator said.

“There were specific, identified instances in multiple matches and we used statistical analysis by a neutral expert to check the information and the conclusion was the matches were mostly likely fixed.

“But they won’t go after white players. Using Yorkshire as a prism to look at racism in English cricket, it is everywhere. And the reason is cricket is dominated by upper-middle class, entitled white people. Even at village green level, it is systemic and endemic and just one guy so far has had the courage to expose it.”