DHAKA – Local and international bookies are under tight scrutiny after intelligence tip-offs revealed that they were trying to contact players and officials of sides in the Cricket World Cup, police said on Wednesday. “Movement of local suspected bookmakers, who also operate as agents of international bookies, are being monitored and often obstructed so that they cannot have access to players and officials,” a senior police officer told Reuters, requesting not to be identified. Match-fixing initiated by bookies has plagued the sport over the years. In a latest action, the ICC this year banned Pakistan fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and batsman Salman Butt for five years for fixing parts of a match (spot fixing) against England.
