Perth–The MCC World Crick­et Com­mit­tee has rec­om­mend­ed that the laws of the game be amend­ed in a bid to rid the sport of cor­rup­tion, and has called for the use of lie de­tec­tor tests to re­in­force the need for trans­paren­cy in the wake of the spot-fix­ing scan­dal that erupt­ed dur­ing Pak­istan's tour of Eng­land in Au­gust. Fol­low­ing a two-day meet­ing in Perth ahead of the third Ash­es Test, the club's work­ing par­ty, in­clud­ing two for­mer Ash­es-win­ning cap­tains in Steve Waugh and Mike Brear­ley, is­sued a state­ment con­tain­ing a wide range of pro­pos­als in­clud­ing "the le­gal­is­ing and reg­u­lat­ing of bet­ting mar­kets in In­dia as pro­posed by the Del­hi Court; the length of bans; non-se­lec­tion of taint­ed play­ers; the pos­si­ble use of lie de­tec­tor tests; the pro­vi­sion of in­tegri­ty of­fi­cers; and the in­clu­sion of an­ti-cor­rup­tion claus­es in all pro­fes­sion­al play­ing con­tracts in all coun­tries."

"The great­est is­sue fac­ing the game right now is match-fix­ing," said Waugh. "How can we make play­ers more ac­count­able for their ac­tions? Per­son­al­ly, I think if you've not done any­thing wrong, why wouldn't you want to have a lie de­tec­tor test? You can't make it com­pul­so­ry but like I said, if you've got noth­ing to hide, why wouldn't you take it? If we sit back and don't do any­thing about cor­rup­tion, it's go­ing to get worse." In its state­ment, the com­mit­tee al­so com­pli­ment­ed the ICC and its An­ti-Cor­rup­tion & Se­cu­ri­ty Unit (AC­SU) for its work to clean up the sport, but urged the game's gov­ern­ing body to com­mit more re­sources–and in­creased pow­ers– to tack­le the sin­gle biggest men­ace to the in­tegri­ty of crick­et. "The ed­u­ca­tion of play­ers should not be a mean­ing­less for­mal­i­ty; the mes­sage should be pressed home with reg­u­lar­i­ty by fig­ures known and re­spect­ed by the play­ers," the state­ment read. "Fur­ther­more, the com­mit­tee be­lieves that team cap­tains - as en­shrined in the Laws and Spir­it of Crick­et–should ac­cept greater re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the con­duct of their play­ers."