Australia's cricketers took advantage of an opportunity to provide information on suspicious approaches in a bid to help the sport rid itself of a potentially sinister underbelly.
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Cricket Australia introduced an amnesty through October and November last year, allowing international and state players to report any corruption-related issues without the fear of impunity.
Cricketers face bans of up to five years if it's discovered they have failed to report any suspicious behaviour.
CA will not provide specifics on the information provided, but a spokesman said: "Our integrity unit was pleased with the response to the amnesty. The process was confidential and therefore details of anyone that was forthcoming with information cannot be disclosed."
Cricketers had self-reported any suspicious behaviour before the amnesty, detailing approaches on local and international shores. It's understood there was no suggestion any Australian player had been involved in attempting to organise any questionable behaviour.
Many Australians take part in the Indian Premier League, a rich Twenty20 competition which has been mired in corruption claims. Two franchises, the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, have been banned for the next two years from the IPL after officials were found guilty of betting on matches.
CA does not have any plans to introduce an amnesty again this season, but a hotline remains in place.
"Not only does the hotline provide players, coaches and officials with an additional channel to report integrity issues such as corruption or doping activities, but it also provides the public with a simple and easy opportunity to report such integrity issues to CA," the spokesman said.
Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption chief, recently said corruption will never leave cricket, but authorities had to persist in erasing threats such as match and spot fixing.
Authorities had success when three Pakistani cricketers were jailed for spot-fixing during the 2010 Test series in England. However, Mohammad Amir, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif have been released and will again take to the field.
Twenty20 competitions remain particularly susceptible to the threat of corruption, with CA beefing up its overall protocols last year under security manager Sean Carroll and integrity manager Iain Roy. This included turning to bet monitoring company, Sport radar.
There are estimates the sports betting market is worth about $3 trillion annually, of which cricket contributes about 10 per cent.
