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 | |  Friday, 15 February, 2002, 10:24 GMT World Cup 'will be corruption free'  Condon is happy with the progress being made Anti-corruption investigator Lord Condon is confident that next year's World Cup in South Africa will not be tarnished by match-fixing. Condon, the head of the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption Unit, said he expected the tournament to be played "entirely on merit". Speaking in Sharjah, he added: "There will be a sensible, but stringent, security regime in place, which will act as a major deterrent to would-be corruptors. "At the same time, it will be as unobtrusive as possible as far as players and spectators are concerned." Condon, the former head of London's Metropolitan Police, was appointed by the ICC in 2000 after a series of damaging revelations which dented the game's image. The most high-profile was the Hansie Cronje case, which resulted in him being stripped of the South African captaincy for receiving money from bookmakers in return for supplying match information. Cronje was subsequently banned for life, and the same fate has also befallen Indians Mohammad Azhuddin and Ajay Sharma, and Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman of Pakistan.
Condon issued an interim report in May last year in which he put forward a number of measures to combat the threat of match-fixing. These included restrictions on access to dressing rooms and team hotels and the use of mobile phones by players during matches, and the development of a training programme to raise awareness of the risks of corruption. "There is now a much greater awareness of the problem among cricket authorities and players. That, combined with the work of the ACU and the series of preventative recommendations accepted by the ICC, have made significant inroads into the problem," Condon added. The ICC is set to appoint five full-time security managers, who will attend all future Test and one-day series around the world. Each one will also responsible for liasing with two of the 10 Test-playing nations about securiyt measures. The appointments are due to be made at the end of the next month. The ACU is soon to begin a complete review of security arrangements at the World Cup venues in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. | |
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