Warner made an official complaint which was forwarded by NSW to the ICC, after he and some Blues teammates were fronted by a group at a restaurant during the Champions League tournament in India last year.
Like the approaches made by a fixer to Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee during last year's tour of England, the ICC could not take any solid action on the Warner case because it could only prove the men wanted general information without mentioning bribes.
“We were sitting there and a group of local guys approached us, asking us questions about the game on TV and games the following day," Warner told the Herald last night. "We didn't know who they were, interested supporters or what. We told them to go away. They left straight away. I then reported the incident to an official of Cricket NSW."
Watson expressed his concern over the lack of breakthroughs made by the ICC's anti-corruption unit, and called for it to make public all of its investigations for transparency.
"I don't think the ICC want to get to the bottom of it, because it could run so deep, but now it is in the public, now everyone knows about it they have to act, they can't cover it up," Watson said. "All the other stuff the ICC anti-corruption unit had in their pipeline, they've got to bring that to the surface."
Asked if the ugly truth could ruin the game, Watson didn't hesitate: "Yes it could . . . what is happening already is ruining the game.
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