Ronnie Flanagan outlines cricket’s proactive approach to fighting corruption

In the workshop, the anti-corruption officers discussed at length the Integrity Working Party (IWP) recommendations, and expressed resolve and commitment to continue their fight to eradicating corruption through proactive, collective and aggressive prevention and disruption tactics.

The ICC Board, during the 2015 ICC Annual Conference in Barbados, had reviewed and adopted the recommendations of the IWP, which had been convened to review the global risks for international and domestic cricket created by the threat of corruption.

Following the productive workshop, the Chairman of the ACU, Ronnie Flanagan, spoke with www.icc-cricket.com and reflected on the strengths of the game’s collective approach to fighting corruption and the key challenges facing the sport.

“The objective of our recent workshop was to bring together the anti‑corruption elements in all 10 major Test‑playing cricket nations, and working together with the ACU at the centre to examine the recommendations of the review report, to look at how we can best work together going forward to implement those recommendations, and to make sure that right across cricket,” said Ronnie, a former Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

“I was very pleased that the recent review we had of the work of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit, placed great emphasis on the fact that the main planks of our activity are prevention, disruption, and only then investigation and prosecution, in that order of priority. And I think that order of priority is absolutely right.”