ICC plans reforms, MI6 style thanks to Bettor.com (Part 1)
One thing that the cricketing fans can surely hope for from the International Cricket Council, crickets governing body that they certainly know how to do things in great style. Irked by one of our blogs, where we likened the ICC ACSU to an undercover army of James Bond and his men with the “Special” security team equipped with water guns. The ICC has taken strict action in this regard and has come up with interesting proposals to tackle the problem of corruption once and for all.
The blog ‘forced’ International Cricket Council head Haroon Lorgat to review the anti-corruption measures and come forward with a new proposal that includes but is not limited to;
Special Security scanners at the door of the dressing room;
Thorough search of the players before and after play;
CCTV cameras in the dressing rooms;
Code-breakers and linguists to decipher and monitor communications;
Guidelines on how players can inform on team mates
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket in general.
One of the biggest dilemmas that the ACSU is apparently facing is how to limit the players once they come into a match and to curb all means that can be used to contact any third party. Tracking such players and the data is another headache for the ICC since the bookmakers are involved in making the practice of ‘fixing’ more and more technologically advanced. This has compelled them to look for options of hiring specialist IT officials, hackers, computer experts and de-coders.
Also, the criticism of the ineffectiveness of the Security team of the ICC has been successful in persuading Mr. Lorgat to consider prospective employees that could be hired, including some ex-military officials, secret service trainers and others. This proposal has been pitched by the ACSU boss Ronnie Flanagan.
The ineptitude of the ICC can be considered by the fact, that despite big claims of how they have tackled the problem of corruption in cricket, they are finding it very hard for the ACSU to be efficient in their work after being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of text messages, emails and telephone records.
They have also been implying that Mazhar Majeed has and Note, ‘systematically’ destroyed mobile phones, SIM cards during the course of the entire investigation being conducted and hence they have failed to find any incriminating evidence in the involvement of Pakistani players through electronic data available to them. The big question mark that then arises is whether the ICC could not even get through to the telecom service provider company in question that has catered to Mr. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed. ICC is eccentric sometimes, but eccentricity to the extent of being eerie is surely a great site to watch. You need to have French fries with ketchup of course to enjoy this experience to the fullest.
Trying to cover up for their ineptitude Mr. Flanagan was quick to note, “In this fast – moving world of technology we have a new wave of devices.” We certainly thank this gladiator for stating the obvious.
"From iPads to iPhones to Blackberry’s and social networking sites, these are all advances we must ensure we 100 per cent understand.” We would also like to recommend some lessons for Mr. Flanagan from a teenage school boy to help him understand how an iPad, an iPhone and a BlackBerry works. This generation gap is certainly taking a toll on these older people.
"It's a huge challenge for enforcement authorities of any form to keep one step ahead of those who would seek to use such technology improperly." If social networking sites, Blackberries, iPads and iPhones are presenting a problem to the ICC ACSU macho men, then we surely pity the future of cricket fans since ICC would be too busy decoding facebook, orkut, hifive and twitter not to mention all these little gadgets that are now introduced to be able to tackle corruption. That will be the responsibility of the News of the World to do, through entrapment and other means. The ICC should handle their security unit to the News of the World since they have managed to do a fairly better job than the bosses themselves.
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