Corruption watchdog warns of ‘massive’ fixing problem

CRICKET has become complacent and has to do more to combat the “massive problem” of corruption in the sport, the game’s former anti-corruption chief warned yesterday, after three Pakistan players were jailed in London for spot-fixing.

Ex-Test captain Salman Butt, 27, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for his role as the “orchestrator” of a plot to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord’s Test against England in August 2010.

Former world number two Test bowler Mohammad Asif, 28, received a 12-month prison term for delivering one of the fraudulent no-balls.