Monitoring Desk

LONDON, Nov 5: Cricket’s governing body has denied newspaper reports that cameras will be placed in players’ dressing rooms in an attempt to combat match-fixing, according to BBC ONline.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the new security measures will include cameras covering entrances and exits to dressing rooms and in team areas of hotels.

But they will stop short of filming the area which players consider their inner sanctum.

Measures agreed by ICC are:

* Use of cameras in dressing rooms and hotel lobbies.

* Players’ mobile phones to be banned from dressing rooms.

* All telephone calls to players to be screened.

* Security guards posted at team hotels.

* Visitors required to sign in at team hotels.

* No unaccredited person allowed near dressing rooms.

“There has never been any intention of invading the privacy of the dressing room,” said ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed.

“But there is every intention of catching the corruptors who have tarnished cricket’s reputation over the past two years.”