The International Cricket Council (ICC) have accepted the Sir Paul Condon led Anti Corruption Unit's (ACU) 24 recommendations into ridding the game of corruption.

The recommendations include the banning of mobile 'phones by players and officials during games, increased involvement of players in the decision making process, full time and professional umpires and the appointment of "security managers" to each team to oversee both the amount of access to players, and the conduct of the players themselves.

The report also expressed doubt on the wisdom of playing in neutral venues, such as Sharjah, and warned the ICC of the need to evolve from a "loose and fragile alliance into a modern regulatory body whose role is clarified and whose transactions are more transparent and accountable."

"I am very pleased the ICC have accepted my report and recommendations," Condon said in reaction. "It gives the ICC a blueprint to put match-fixing in the past."

However, Condon revealed that he believed that corruption was still a problem in world cricket.

"My own view is that things are still going on within matches. Sadly I do think events have been fixed in the last year. There are a small number of matches and a small number of players involved."

But he expressed confidence in the ability of the ICC to deal with the problem and stressed that the ACU had learnt much about the origins of the corruption, and were in a position to prevent a reoccurrence.

"Very quickly we will have in place an infrastructure to disrupt people who are doing this," he added. "I'm absolutely convinced that the ICC will do their utmost to rid this problem from cricket.

"The main event for me has always been to make sure cricket never has to face this again. I think we now have a better understanding than ever as to why this happened, where it happened, the extent of it, what was the nature of the corruption, how people got involved into it, whether it's still going on and how we can prevent it in the future.

"Clearly we are looking back as to what happened in the past. If we find evidence, we are placing it before the relevant authority. But it's a fact of life, if you have got a corrupter and someone who has been corrupted, by and large neither of them has got an interest about talking about it or acknowledging it."

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