ICC's Condon meets with Indian detectives

Cricket's chief corruption investigator Sir Paul Condon has met with federal Indian detectives in New Delhi to discuss their investigation into match-fixing.

Condon, a former Metropolitan Police Commissioner was accompanied by Greg Mellick, investigator of the Australian Cricket Board, New Zealand official Tim Gresson and Sri Lankan official Desmond Fernando.

"We will comment on the issue tomorrow," said Condon, who went to India to seek out 'details and methods' adopted by the CBI to collect evidence during its six-month inquiry.

"Our talks were detailed and we provided the visiting team members with answers to the questions they asked," a source from the CBI said.

Last month the CBI claimed that five Indian and nine foreign players were involved in match-fixing and betting.

The foreign players named in the CBI report included former England captain Alec Stewart, Brian Lara of the West Indies and Australia's Mark Waugh.

Yesterday, Condon said that the ICC would only probe charges of match-fixing against foreign players who have been accused of taking large sums of money from an Indian bookie to fix matches.

Condon also said the ICC probe would be a global exercise, adding that he hoped to submit a report by April next year 'on how to minimise corruption in cricket and maximise protection for players against corruption'.