ICC considers testing players with undercover agents
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering testing players by sending out undercover agents who will pose as illegal bookmakers.
The radical proposal hopes to check whether players will report such encounters or not.
Cricketers who do not reveal the approaches would be penalised under the anti-corruption code, and sanctions could range from fines to suspensions.
The plan is only in its embryonic stage and is one of many new initiatives being considered by the ICC in light of the Pakistan spot-fixing allegations.
The idea was put to the ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat and is now being considered as a measure to fight corruption in cricket.
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