No security threat to Tendulkar: Lord Condon
H S Rao in London
On the eve of the Indian team's arrival in England, a senior International
Cricket Council official has said there is no security threat to star batsman Sachin Tendulkar in the United Kingdom.
"There is no specific threat (to players) anywhere in the world," Lord Paul Condon, director of the ICC's anti-corruption unit told PTI when asked whether any special security measures were taken for Tendulkar during his stay in England.
"Our task is not to deal with physical protection but to work as part of the anti-corruption unit," he said. Lord Condon described India as one of the staunchest allies of the ICC in dealing with match-fixing. "India is the central gravity for world cricket and we rely very heavily on India and the sub-continent," he added.
Lord Condon was talking after presiding over a week-long Security Managers Conference signalling the launch of the new anti-corruption infrastructure for world cricket.
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