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![]() | Sunday, 4 November, 2001, 14:05 GMT Would cameras be too intrusive? ![]() The International Cricketers' Union expresses concern over new plans to place cameras in Test dressing rooms. Would the use of cameras in this way be too intrusive? Or is it a legitimate tool in the battle against corruption? The use of cameras in dressing rooms was one of a number of measures approved by last month's International Cricket Council meeting in an attempt to stamp out match-fixing.
It is part of a policy suggested by Anti Corruption Unit head Lord Condon, and other measures agreed by the ICC include the screening of all telephone calls to players. David Graveney, England chairman of selectors and joint chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers Associations, has reservations. Quoted in the Sunday Telegraph, he said there was "a fine line between protecting the game and intruding into players' private lives". Does the use of cameras cross that line? Or are such measures the only way to rid cricket of corruption? What do they expect to see? A dodgy looking character in a long trench coat and sunglasses dishing out fivers to players? Ridiculous. We should on an experimental basis put cameras in the living rooms of ACU members for at least a month. We should then take recommendations from them and the people who monitored the visuals. What do you say Mr. Condon? No, no, no and an even more stronger NO! The players would have to censor the way they behave in a dressing room, which is ridiculous, since it's their private room and they should be able to behave in any which way they chosoe to.
I think that putting cameras in changing rooms is the wrong way to go, players deserve privacy and this would definately invade it. Monitoring phone calls borders the line, but cameras in the changing rooms steps over the line. It is nice to see a serious attempt to stamp out match-fixing. But the use of cameras in dressing rooms is going a little too far. However, I strongly believe that players' mobile phones and unaccredited people should be banned from players' dressing rooms. It is not a good idea to put spy cameras in dressing rooms. The dressing room is the last point of privacy for a team and it has to be a "Team Control Point" and not "ICC Control Point". An absolute and epmhatic NO! This goes beyond the boundaries of reason. I feel it is very much intrusive. The players should be left alone. | See also: Other top Sports Talk stories: Links to more Sports Talk stories are at the foot of the page. | ||||||
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