The International Cricket Council are formulating plans to tackle what it has called “significant corruption concerns” in franchise tournaments around the globe.<\/p>\n
In documentation seen by BBC Sport the ICC’s integrity unit have reported there is “growing evidence” that corrupters were “infiltrating leagues and players across a number of different member territories”.<\/p>\n
The ICC are now planning to establish a working party which will seek to harmonise franchise cricket within the international calendar and examine how corruption could be tackled more effectively.<\/p>\n
As part of the steps taken to mitigate the concerns the ICC’s executive committee will discuss a number of wider strategies during their ongoing annual conference in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
These include expanding the scope of when the ICC sanction a domestic league, meaning more tournaments would require their approval.<\/p>\n
Under current regulations a domestic league in a non-full member country only requires ICC approval if it includes more than four players who have represented a full member national team within 24 months.<\/p>\n
The ICC are also considering beefing up its powers to step into leagues where there were integrity concerns which are not being addressed.<\/p>\n
Similarly, concerns have been raised over the threat by the growth of illegal betting particularly through the sponsorship of franchise leagues.<\/p>\n
The ICC note these “expose host members to the risk of facilitating” illegal betting which carries the “potential for increased corruption”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Cricket Council are formulating plans to tackle what it has called “significant corruption concerns” in franchise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}