Is the match-fixing message sinking in?

AN ‘Anti-Corruption Unit’ suggests to me the ICC are taking no shortcuts in curbing global efforts to fix cricket.
But seeing the video posted on The Cricket Paper’s twitter account this week of such blatant unwillingness by one, possibly two, teams from the UAE to play their lie while fixing a match, makes you hope the players are just bad actors rather than fixing being perpetual in cricket.
There’s promise in the fact that in some farflung corner of the Emirates in a regional competition, the eyes of the ICC can still find culprits of cheating.
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