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Ex ICC elite panel umpire not surprised by fixing claims

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Hairs statement came after the ICC has launched an urgent investigation into the claims.

Former ICC elite panel umpire Darrell Hair is not at all surprised by the allegations of fixing against match officials, and said such rumours started doing rounds since the birth of the cash-rich Indian Premier League.Hair’s statement came after the ICC has launched an urgent investigation into the claims made by an Indian television channel that several umpires were willing to fix matches for money in the just-concluded Twenty20 World Cup and Sri Lanka Premier League.I was wondering how long it would take before some umpire did some stupid things, he said. There have been rumours going around for ages, since the IPL started, that umpires were involved, Hair said.The six umpires, who are purportedly shown in the India TV sting willing to fix matches, are Nadeem Ghauri and Anees Siddiqui of Pakistan, Nadir Shah of Bangladesh, and Gamini Dissanayake, Maurice Winston and Sagara Gallage of Sri Lanka.