<p>Australia cannot even think that its player would be involved in match-fixing as anti-corruption is a deeply ingrained part of its cricket culture, Cricket Australia has said.</p>.<p>The fixing issue re-surfaced in England when former Essex player Mervyn Westfield admitted to have received corrupt payments during a County match against Durham.<br /><br />The England Wales Cricket Board (ECB) then came with an amnesty offer to players to reveal past fixing approaches.<br /><br />Cricket Australia though said it does not not require any such step as it believed in its system.<br /><br />"What we are aware of is the very, very strong culture within the Australian team and throughout international and national Australian cricket, male and female.<br />"It's just an article of faith that it's un-Australian to contemplate some of the things we have seen happening in sport overseas," a CA spokesman was quoted as saying by 'Sydney Morning Herald'.<br /><br />Westfield's guilty plea comes three months after Pakistan trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were handed jail terms for spot-fixing during the Lord's Test against England in 2009.<br /><br />A member of CA's recently formed anti-corruption unit, headed by security manager Sean Carroll, is present at every Big Bash match to safeguard against extra betting interest in the Twenty20 competition.<br /><br />The unit attends random Shield or domestic one-day matches as CA feels there is no perceived risk in those competitions.</p>
<p>Australia cannot even think that its player would be involved in match-fixing as anti-corruption is a deeply ingrained part of its cricket culture, Cricket Australia has said.</p>.<p>The fixing issue re-surfaced in England when former Essex player Mervyn Westfield admitted to have received corrupt payments during a County match against Durham.<br /><br />The England Wales Cricket Board (ECB) then came with an amnesty offer to players to reveal past fixing approaches.<br /><br />Cricket Australia though said it does not not require any such step as it believed in its system.<br /><br />"What we are aware of is the very, very strong culture within the Australian team and throughout international and national Australian cricket, male and female.<br />"It's just an article of faith that it's un-Australian to contemplate some of the things we have seen happening in sport overseas," a CA spokesman was quoted as saying by 'Sydney Morning Herald'.<br /><br />Westfield's guilty plea comes three months after Pakistan trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were handed jail terms for spot-fixing during the Lord's Test against England in 2009.<br /><br />A member of CA's recently formed anti-corruption unit, headed by security manager Sean Carroll, is present at every Big Bash match to safeguard against extra betting interest in the Twenty20 competition.<br /><br />The unit attends random Shield or domestic one-day matches as CA feels there is no perceived risk in those competitions.</p>
