Australia corruption free says Clarke

SYDNEY: Australia captain Michael Clarke is disappointed at the alleged involvement of international cricketers in match-fixing but was “happy, satisfied and confident” that his own team were not corrupt, he said on Wednesday. Clarke said any kind of corruption in the “greatest sport in the world” was unwelcome but did not think it was a problem in Australia. “As an Australian cricketer, I’m very proud of what this current team has done and achieved and I think we are educated very well in what is right and what is wrong,” he said. “I’m extremely confident about the players I’m playing with, this Australian team, all know very clearly that there’s no room for corruption in our team. Although Australians have not been involved in any of the string of scandals that have emerged over the last two decades, the country’s cricketing authorities were condemned for covering up the “Bookmaker John” case in 1995. Two of Australia’s greatest cricketers, Shane Warne and Mark Waugh, were privately fined for accepting thousands of dollars from an Indian bookmaker to give weather and pitch information — punishments that were not revealed until 1998.