Former cricket corruption chief Lord Condon has called for players to be given a greater role in the fight against the rackets that threaten to destabilise the sport.
Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were convicted last week for their role in the spot-fixing scandal during last year's Lord's Test against England. The trio were guilty of conspiracy to cheat and accepting corrupt payments.
Lord Condon stepped down from the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit last year after a decade and believes cricketers should play a leading role in cleaning up the game.
"The players must be empowered and encouraged to become more active stakeholders and guardians of cricket integrity," he said.
"The ICC and national boards must rise to the challenge to find a more productive partnership with players and representative bodies.
"Although some progress has been made, cricketers are still not an integral part of the solution to corruption.
"The anticorruption endeavour is applied to them rather than with them.
"Consequently, over the past 10 years, cricketers have grudgingly accepted the anti-corruption measures rather than being the eyes and ears on the front line, reporting suspicious events."
Lord Condon is apprehensive, however, about the impact of the increasing number of Twenty20 matches across the world, adding that the shortest form of the game had a "potentially more sinister underside".
