DUBAI – Cricket has been hit by another match-fixing scandal. Two testmatches played played at Galle International Stadium in Sri Lanka,including the match between Sri Lanka and India in July last year, werefixed, according to Al Jazeera.

According to the report, the fixers were caught on camera during anundercover investigation planning to fix a third test match. The fixing wasdone by doctoring the condition of the pitches.

The other fixed match was Sri Lanka v/s Australia in August 2016.

Both matches were played at Galle International Stadium in Sri Lanka.

In secretly filmed meetings, the match-fixers also said that they wereplanning to fix England’s game against Sri Lanka, also at Galle, inNovember this year.

International Cricket Council (ICC) has laready launched an investigationinto the allegations.

*Batting wickets for India match, bowling wicket for Australia*

The documentary “Cricket’s Match-Fixers” will be telecast on Al Jazeera andwill be available to watch online on Sunday at 10:00 GMT (3:30 PM IST).

According to reports the documentary will show Robin Morris, a match-fixerfrom Mumbai, telling undercover reporters that he bribed the groundsman atGalle to doctor the pitch to ensure guaranteed outcomes. Morris is formerfirst-class cricketer from Maharashtra.

The groundsman, Tharanga Indika, assistant manager at the Galle stadium,says he can make pitches to favour either bowlers or batsmen.

Asked if he could fix the surface so a draw would be impossible, Indikareplies: “Yes, I can. I can confirm it in advance one week before.”

Indika told the undercover team that for the India match at Galle he made apitch for batsmen. “India was set for a batting wicket.”

“We pressed the wicket thoroughly with a roller and then we put water on itto make it even harder,” he says in the documentary.

The batting pitch ensured a high score in the first innings so thecriminals could bet on a first innings total higher than the bookmakers’prediction.

In the event, India scored a massive 600 runs in their first innings – andthe match-fixers made a large profit.

Indika says he made a pitch for bowlers for the Australia match .

“In that five-day match, we prepared the wicket poorly without using aroller. In that way we made a spinning wicket.”

The “bowling pitch” ensured that the game would not last for the full fivedays and so the game would not end in a draw.

The match-fixers made money by betting that the game would not end in adraw.