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Mar 2019
51m 29s

Chin Music to Cha-Cha-Cha

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Former West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose on his unlikely reinvention as a ballroom dancer in Australian TV show Dancing with the Stars.

Plus, we meet the man at the centre of cricket's fight against corruption.

Alex Marshall, head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, speaks to us from Sri Lanka, one of several cricket-playing countries where match-fixing is not a criminal offence.

(Photo: Siobhan Power and Curtly Ambrose Credit: Network 10)

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