THE ICC HAVE imposed a blanket ban on team officials tweeting during World Cup matches in a bid to cut out any possibility of the social networking site being used as a tool for potential corruption.
Following on from the spot-fixing scandal involving Pakistan, the governing body have decided to eliminate the possibility of coaches and officials leaving themselves open to corruption claims, however baseless, as a result of tweeting.
“As recent events have shown, the ICC has a zero-tolerance approach to corruption. Anything that can negate that possibility is something we are definitely interested in,” said ICC spokesman James Fitzgerald. “This is just a precaution, it’s not something we are overly concerned about. But we do feel a team manager’s phone should be used for operational purposes only during matches.”
Kevin Pietersen was fined an undisclosed sum last year by the England and Wales Cricket Board for a Twitter tirade which followed a decision to drop him from the one-day team, while Aussie opener Phillip Hughes endured the wrath of Cricket Australia when he announced that he’d been dropped from the third Ashes Test in 2009.
Following on from the spot-fixing scandal involving Pakistan, the governing body have decided to eliminate the possibility of coaches and officials leaving themselves open to corruption claims, however baseless, as a result of tweeting.
“As recent events have shown, the ICC has a zero-tolerance approach to corruption. Anything that can negate that possibility is something we are definitely interested in,” said ICC spokesman James Fitzgerald. “This is just a precaution, it’s not something we are overly concerned about. But we do feel a team manager’s phone should be used for operational purposes only during matches.”
Kevin Pietersen was fined an undisclosed sum last year by the England and Wales Cricket Board for a Twitter tirade which followed a decision to drop him from the one-day team, while Aussie opener Phillip Hughes endured the wrath of Cricket Australia when he announced that he’d been dropped from the third Ashes Test in 2009.
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