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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nadunkwee" data-source="post: 8224552" data-attributes="member: 64853">Sri Lankan players also approached       Sidharth Monga   September 5, 2010                   Members of the Sri Lankan team have been approached by people being  described as "suspicious characters" more than once over the last year. Team sources, however, said that contrary to newspaper reports, the Sri  Lankan team did not report any specific player to the ICC's  Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).    During the 2009 World Twenty20 in England, several players first brought  to the notice of the Sri Lankan management that there were suspicious  people "hanging around and trying to talk and approach". The matter was  immediately reported to the ACSU, whereupon Alan Peacock, senior  investigator of the unit, took statements from the players who had made  the reports. Nishantha Ranatunga, the SLC secretary, too, confirmed that  "the report was handed over to ACSU by manager Brendon Kuruppu". The  team management also got Peacock to speak to the team on these issues,  and players were encouraged to report any approach openly.    That, though, was not the last time the team had to make such reports to  the ACSU. There were other approaches since then, and the ICC and SLC  had all the details. The source said the year had been a particularly  difficult time "to hold the team together, and still manage to keep  giving our best".   The source said: "We always wanted to make sure that whenever we played  it was as clean as possible." The players were asked to report  immediately "if there was any doubt".  "We wanted to make sure that the cricket board and the ACSU are given  every opportunity to make sure the players are protected from these  influences. Every opportunity was given to see if any player was guilty  of it, to make sure those things were dealt with in tandem with the  cricket board."   The source said one of the other issues around the entire  anti-corruption exercise was the confidentiality of reporting approaches  to the ICC. "Most of the time you might think twice [before  reporting]," the source said. "If you find it reported in a newspaper,  another newspaper can carry it. It has to be confidential. Players must  report but people have to make sure they feel safe to do so. At the same  time, the ICC's code itself makes it mandatory for players to report  these things. You have to build the trust up. Players also want a clean  game."   Additional reporting by Sa'adi Thawfeeq              Sidharth Monga is an assistant editor at Cricinfo    <a href="http://www.cricinfo.com/rss/content/story/feeds/magazine.rss?author=272" target="_blank">source : http://www.cricinfo.com/srilanka/content/story/475872.html?CMP=chrome</a></blockquote>

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