Saturday, December 30, 2006

England unhappy over leak explanation

The English cricket team says it plans to hold its own investigation into how secret bowling plans were leaked to the ABC yesterday.

An initial investigation by Cricket Australia (CA) and the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) ruled that the document, which was aired during commentary on Wednesday and is available online here, was not stolen.

The plans, compiled by England team analyst Mark Garaway, listed each of Australia's batting line-up and cited the various tactics to be used to try and dismiss them.

The CA/MCC investigators accepted fan Nick Ruthry's explanation that he found a copy of England's plans on the ground in the members' area on Wednesday before emailing them to the ABC.

But the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) says it is unhappy with that explanation and is continuing its own probe into the leak.

The ECB says it wants to know how confidential documents found its way to the public.

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