Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Zaka Ashraf announced Tuesday that “Vigilance Division” will be set up soon to prevent players from illegal betting practices. The move comes less than two weeks after former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif were found guilty of conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments at Southwark Crown Court in London. Paceman Mohammad Amir had already admitted his part in the plot to bowl fraudulent no-balls during the Lord’s Test against England in August 2010. He was quoted by dubaisportscity.ae as saying: “My immediate plans are that I am setting up a Vigilance Division in the cricket board and there we are going to keep a very strict eye and bring in strict discipline so that players, wherever they are, don’t get in touch with people who try to drag them into such negative business.
“We want to discourage that, we want to eliminate that. “We have to be a respectable board, we have to work with the ECB, with the rest of the world and we have to move forward.” “We have had a meeting with the chairman of the Bangladesh Cricket Board and we discussed a lot of things,” said Ashraf, speaking during the second one-day international between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Dubai on Monday. “He was of the view that Bangladesh would come and play one or two matches (in Pakistan). “We will arrange all the security so there will be no lapses. It should be a foolproof security system. “Then the other teams can start coming and the arrangements will be such that there will be no security lapses, all sides will be covered. “What we discussed with the chairman of the BCB probably will be discussed in December in Dhaka and we will then formulate the plan.”
