LONDON, Oct 21, The International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption Unit is to study a video of India’s one-day international in which they were surprisingly beaten by Kenya in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, last Tuesday, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

The match, played on the same day that disgraced former South African captain Hansie Cronje’s life ban from cricket was upheld in a Pretoria court, was part of a triangular tournament also involving the host nation.

Kenya had lost their first two matches but produced a confident performance to beat India by 70 runs.

Two members of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit were in Johannesburg at the time to work with the 2003 World Cup organising committee and attend a security meeting directorate.

Within an hour of the start of the fixture, their attention had been drawn towards events in Port Elizabeth.

On Wednesday the ACU took the unprecedented step of requesting a video copy of the highlights from Port Elizabeth.

The tape was collected from a television studio in Johannesburg at 4pm and by now it will have shown ACU investigators in London that four out of the top five Indian batsmen were bowled as they crashed to 176 all out in pursuit of 247 for victory.

Before they left South Africa the investigators spoke to the match referee, Judge Ahmed Ebrahim of Zimbabwe, who stuck to the contents of his match report which stated that, in his opinion, India had fielded an under-strength team.

Most observers were delighted to see Kenya fighting back after humiliations in their opening matches when a century opening stand between Kennedy Otieno (64) and Ravindu Shah (50) cheered spectators.

India’s began cautiously with Sachin Tendulkar playing out 13 dot balls from Joseph Angara before inside edging him to off stump. Captain Saurav Ganguly was bowled behind his legs and Jacob Martin heaved across the line. Yuvraj Singh was also bowled.