Tillakaratne to take fix claims to ICC

Former Sri Lanka captain Hashan Tillakaratne said on Tuesday he was ready to share information on alleged match-fixing with the International Cricket Council, the game's world governing body. Tillakaratne, now an opposition politician, said he will name those involved in match-fixing to ICC officials, after he claimed last week that Sri Lanka players had been fixing matches since 1992. "I made the statements (about match-fixing) neither to get political mileage nor to put anyone in an awkward position," he told reporters a day after a police inquiry was ordered into his allegations. "I made the comments in good faith and I will share the information with the ICC. The exercise was meant to protect the game and the players we all love so much."

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