Quote: An international team is under investigation for corruption, the ICC's anti-corruption unit chairman has revealed at the outset of the World Twenty20 in India. Sir Ronnie Flanagan said the ACU had thwarted attempts to "manipulate" events in forthcoming matches to facilitate betting, and that action had been initiated against "one or two individuals".

He refused to elaborate on the "ongoing" matter, but cited it as an example of the ACU acting on intelligence received and playing a proactive role in preventing acts of corruption.

"It will be very difficult for me to talk about specific details about an ongoing case, but quite recently we have a reason to believe that members of a particular team have intentions to manipulate events in forthcoming matches," Flanagan said at a media interaction in Mumbai ahead of the World T20. "This was an international team but I am not going to go into any details because it is still under our investigation.

"Certain individuals, we believed, had intention to manipulate events to facilitate betting on those events. Just like police have to make these operational decisions - in terms of how long or how far you allow something to develop or when do you intervene - we decided in this particular case we would intervene immediately. We would focus on individuals who we suspected, but we would remind the entire squad of all their responsibilities. am certain that our action in that particular case did indeed avert the intention of just one or two individuals, and we have taken action in relation to those individuals and we will be taking further action."

Quote:Dave Richardson, the chief executive of the International Cricket Council, has revealed Hong Kong are the team recently probed by the governing body’s anti-corruption unit but insists the upcoming World Twenty20 in India will be clean.

Ronnie Flanagan, the former British police chief who heads up ACU, told reporters on Sunday that his team had recently moved to prevent a planned spot-fixing incident, with an unnamed international side under investigation. Richardson has gone on to confirm that the case in question relates to that of the Hong Kong all-rounder Irfan Ahmed, who was suspended in January and charged with failing to report an illegal approach.

“In recent times you would have read in the media that a particular player was suspended from his country and the investigations relate to the same team,” Richardson said on Monday. Hong Kong get the 2016 World Twenty20 under way on Tuesday with their Group B opener against Zimbabwe in Nagpur, but Richardson insists that wrongdoing should not be assumed simply from the fact that players have been spoken to.