Isabelle Westbury is a freelance journalist who writes for the SII. Her focus is on politics and sport, especially cricket. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Mail and The Sun, and broadcasts on cricket for the BBC. She has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union, as well as a postgraduate degree in law. She is also Middlesex CCC women’s cricket captain.
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The Australian Football League (AFL) anti-doping tribunal has handed Fremantle Docker player Ryan Crowley a 12-month suspension for breaching its anti-doping code. Crowley failed a match-day test after Fremantle’s Round 17 game against Greater Western Sydney Giants on 13 July 2014, testing positive to a banned substance. The banned...
The global online bookmaker Betway has entered into an agreement with the Professional Players Federation (PPF) in which Betway will ‘contribute to sports betting integrity educational initiatives undertaken by the PPF’. The PPF is a UK national organisation for the network of professional player associations in the United Kingdom,...
Vladimir Ruzicka has reportedly resigned from his role as coach of the Czech Republic’s national team following allegations by parents of players of top tier side Slavia Prague that he demanded money in exchange for their sons’ place in the team while coach there. The allegations surround Ruzicka’s tenure...
Local media in Singapore are reporting that four suspects arrested in connection with alleged match-fixing of games at the South East Asian (SEA) Games football tournament are now facing additional charges in addition to the original match-fixing charge. The Singapore Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) late last month issued...
Raza Hasan, the left-arm spinner who was last month banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for two years after failing a doping test, reportedly told a media conference that he would appeal his ban. Pakistani broadsheet The Nation reported over the weekend that Hasan had held a media...
Wakalat Anba’a al Emarat (WAM), the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Monday that the President of the UAE, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, had issued a new federal law to ‘combat the trade of use of banned substances in horse racing and equestrian...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) yesterday announced that it had appealed the Australian Football League (AFL) Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal decision to clear Stephen Dank, the former sports scientist at Australian rules football club Essendon, of 21 charges of the league’s drug code. WADA Director General, David Howman, said in...
A Commission of Inquiry established by the Government of Queensland in Australia has found that the system of self-regulation under which the Queensland greyhound racing industry functions has ‘failed to ensure integrity in the industry and failed to safeguard animal welfare’. The report was commissioned in the wake of...
In its first meeting since the re-election of Sepp Blatter as FIFA President, the FIFA Executive Committee have suspended the Indonesia Football Association (PSSI) with immediate effect due to what FIFA labelled the ‘take over’ of Indonesia’s national football governing body by the Indonesian authorities. In a letter to...
The Guardian reported this morning that the Australian federal police may investigate a payment of AUD$500,000 (€349,000) by Football Federation Australia (FFA) to Jack Warner. The news comes after the former FIFA Vice-President was charged by the US Department of Justice along with eight other current and former FIFA...
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has sentenced amateur player John Sutton to a suspension of six years from the sport of snooker. In a statement released today the WPBSA said that on 20th May 2015 there was a hearing to determine the sanction against Sutton. The suspension...
Scotland’s Evening Express has reported that a match-fixing investigation by Latvian police, which arose from the Europa League tie between Aberdeen and the Latvian club Daugava Riga in July 2014, has identified eight suspects. According to the newspaper, a spokesman for the Latvian police said that they had identified...
FIFA said that it is “very happy” that both US and Swiss authorities today took separate actions over alleged embezzlement ahead of the 65th FIFA Congress, 28-29 May 2015. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives with ‘racketeering, wire fraud and money...
The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) today confirmed that at the request of US authorities, the Zurich Cantonal Police have arrested six ‘soccer’ officials in connection to bribery allegations, who have been detained pending extradition to the US. ‘The FOJ’s arrest warrants were issued further to a request by the...
India’s Enforcement Directorate, a specialised financial investigation agency under the ambit of the Department of Revenue within India’s Ministry of Finance, last week conducted a series of raids in Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur under an investigation into match-fixing during this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament, according...
