Inside the ACSU

RDJ Edwards interviews former cricket anti-corruption chief in the Cricketer magazine. Condon says there's no reason to think fixing is widespread now, and says he would be surprised if the number of players that have caused concern reached double figures.

By about 2007 cricket was getting complacent and the boards weren’t really listening to the warnings so avidly. They were falling on deaf ears because the sport had been kept relatively clear for six, seven or eight years.

But probably the greatest trigger point was the explosion of T20, because it brought with it massively more unregulated cricket, using international players. The ‘anything goes’ party atmosphere allowed some really bad people back into the game. Some of the notorious fixers from early years started to re-emerge on the circuit in India, Pakistan, South Africa, Australia and the UK.