Sportradar partners with Cricket Australia
Governing body to monitor cricket competitions for betting-related corruption and fraudulent activity
Sportradar has partnered with Cricket Australia to monitor cricket competitions for signs of betting-related corruption and fraudulent activity.
Sportradar has maintained a fraud detection system since 2004, identifying suspicious betting practices across the world and has most recently uncovered alleged match fixing in Australia’s A-League soccer competition.
Carsten Koerl, CEO at Sportradar, said its partnership with Cricket Australia would tackle the threat of match fixing head on.
“It’s critical in today’s world that sports governing bodies confront the threat of betting related match-fixing and have robust preventative, detection and investigation methods in-place,” Koerl said.
The sports data provider, which owns egaming data supplier Betradar, will now monitor the Ryobi Cup, Sheffield Shield and Big Bash T20 League with the help of Cricket Australia.
“Cricket Australia takes the threat of betting related match-fixing very seriously and this partnership with Sportradar is the latest step taken to help uphold the integrity of cricket in Australia,” James Sutherland, CEO of Cricket Australia, said.