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LONDON. — The International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption Unit has launched an investigation in Sri Lanka, world cricket’s governing body has said.

The ICC did not give any details as to what the nature of their investigation entailed, only that ACU officers had recently visited the country.

”There is currently an ICC (ACU) investigation underway in Sri Lanka,“ the ACU’s general manager Alex Marshall said in a statement yesterday. “Naturally as part of this we are talking to a number of people.

“We will not comment any further on an ongoing investigation.”

Sri Lanka Cricket said on Friday that 40 players had asked the country’s governing body to launch an investigation into allegations made in a television interview by former selector Pramodya Wickremasinghe that there had been suspicions over “unnatural match patterns” in the country. — Reuters.