New anti-corruption guidelines for players in IPL 7

Rajasthan Royals’ Ajit Chandila was revealed to have received lavish gifts in the IPL spot-fixing proble last year

In an effort to eradicate spot-fixing from the Indian Premier League (IPL), the BCCI has drafted a new protocol for the seventh edition of IPL that the players and teams alike will have to follow.

• Players will have to disclose in writing to BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Unit their contact details including all email addresses and cellphone numbers, local and international to be used by them 30 days before and after the IPL, the CLT20 and any friendly matches played by the franchise. Changes in any of these details will also have to be notified, failing which will result in the player getting debarred.

• Players will have to to declare gifts in cash, products or services received or promised by anyone in connection with his participation or performance in the matches. The cap for valuation of declarable gifts has been set at Rs. 30,000.

• Following the attending of pre-season anti-corruption briefing that has been made mandatory for the players to attend, each player will have to sign an undertaking saying he attended and understood the briefing.

• Every player will have an agreement with the franchise whereby they will not disclose anything on the franchisee’s operations, financial and business information including the team combination and strategy.

An official from the Anti-Corruption Unit said: “We have put up a robust infrastructure this time around, a far more significant vigilant mechanism as compared to last year. But the whole emphasis is on sensitizing players — explaining to them the broad outline, consequences through a competence efficiency test. This competence efficiency test is based on a player’s educational, social and language background so that nobody complains about incomprehension later.”

“Also, we wish to continue to attach and embed an integrity officer with every franchise keeping an eye on the team all the time, something that we tried during the last Champions League in India.”