The International Cricket Council will have four independent experts analyse sessions of play in matches alleged to have been fixed by a betting syndicate.

A documentary broadcast last month by Al Jazeera claimed to have uncovered evidence of 26 spot fixes in 15 matches between 2011-2012, including seven games played by England.

The documentary makers played a recording purporting to be of a fixer calling a well-known bookie in India to tell him the score from specific sessions of play. It was claimed he correctly predicted 25 out of 26 session correctly.

Al Jazeera has refused to hand over any information to the ICC but its Anti-Corruption Unit will have the sessions of play analysed by experts from the betting industry and two independent statisticians in an attempt to discover whether there was anything unusual.

“I am open minded and we will have the matches properly assessed by a number of different experts. I want to establish whether what happened was suspicious or predictable,” said Alex Marshall, the ICC’s head of anti-corruption.

Marshall also issued another plea for Al Jazeera to co-operate with the ACU. So far AL Jazeera has refused to hand over its unedited footage to ICC investigators. “I strongly encourage Al Jazeera to pass their evidence on to Interpol or the National Crime Agency as soon as possible.”