Saturday, September 4, 2010

Water-tight security for ACLT20

The ICC and the organisers of the Airtel CLT20 are working to make the tournament free from any kind of corruption by putting in place stringent security measures.


Gerald Majola, chief executive of Cricket South Africa and governing council member of ACLT20 said, "As we would for any major event like a World Cup. The governing council and ICC have put the same plans in place as they would for any event".


Every match in the tournament will be played under the close eyes of 4 security agents and 3-4 security officers will be allotted to each team with a similar number also present at every hotel.
Dean Kino, governing council member, had also rubbished reports of concern caused by the spot-fixing scandal. "In case of players breaking the code, the same strictures would apply as they do in the ICC's anti-corruption code. No single player who takes the field in our tournament will not have been educated about corruption and the code of behaviour, " he told cricinfo.com.
Earlier in July this year, Sir Paul Condon, the outgoing head of the ACSU said, "the biggest challenge to the integrity of cricket for probably 10 years".
"Familiarly heady cocktail of party atmosphere, entertainment, cricket and celebrity" caused some of the "bad old faces who were involved in match-fixing a decade ago, to reappear at grounds and hotels to try and get involved again", he added.

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