Cricket authorities need to be “very, very careful” about corruption in the Twenty20 format of the game according to international players' union (FICA) chief executive Tim May.
May also criticised leading Twenty20 league the Indian Premier League for its “arrogance” in the way it treats players, Reuters reports.
May said the shorter, Twenty20 format meant match outcomes could be more easily corrupted. "…I think it opens up a great deal of opportunities for the bookmakers to try and corrupt players into providing various different outcomes in the game, if not the result itself,” he said.
He said the IPL was pursuing a “self-defeating” policies in refusing to grant players the ability to review security arrangements, or deal with players' managers or agents.
The comments were made in an interview published in the March issue of cricket magazine The Wisden Cricketer, out on Friday.
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