CA establishes an anti-corruption body to oversee domestic events – Cricket News Update
Cricket Australia (CA) has created an anti-corruption unit to supervise the domestic cricket competitions and stamp out every form of corruption from the game in a bid to nullify a former International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) official, Paul Condon’s claims
that every major cricketing nation had been crooked in 1990s.
CA Chief, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Alexander-Sutherland-c65430, announced this landmark policy yesterday along with the names of the officials who are tasked with running the new body. The ICC anti-corruption unit’s former employee, Sean Carroll, has been appointed as chairman, who will lead
a team of veteran security and cricket analysts. The ACU will look after Sheffield Shield, the Big Bash League and the limited-over competitions.
Talking to the media yesterday, Sutherland said, “Betting related corruption is a significant issue to sport in general and Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 is determined to institute measures that safeguard the integrity of our sport. There has been no evidence of problems
in domestic cricket but we want to move proactively on the basis that vigilance and constant education is critical.”
He further told, “The Unit will give our domestic cricket bodies a specialized resource to call on to protect our sport from instances of corruption and underscores our dedication to stamping out illegal activity."
The major objective of the unit is to monitor the young players of the domestic cricket and hamper the way of illegal gambling, which may provoke them to practice spot-fixing and match-fixing.
The CA has taken this hallmark step in the backdrop of the Pakistani trio’s trial and conviction in a British Crown Court. The three young sportsmen, namely http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Asif-c1993, were granted varied jail terms a couple of weeks ago
for their involvement in a spot-fixing controversy that came about during a Pakistan-England Test match at Lord’s, in August 2010.
This gruesome scandal has spread shock waves across the cricket world as every country is trying to adopt different measures to eradicate corruption, which undermines the standard of the game. Following in the footsteps of Australia, some other ace cricketing
nations are also likely to set up anti-corruption bodies proactively.
Tags: