ICC World Cup: Players banned from Twitter

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned players from social networking site, Twitter during the cricket World Cup, starting this weekend.

According to��AFP, the ban has been imposed as a precautionary measure against possible corruption.

But, given players are banned from having access to mobile phones during matches, they thought it prudent following the recent spot-fixing scandal involving Pakistan, to avoid a situation where team officials left themselves open to corruption claims, however baseless, as a result of a Twitter post.

“As recent events have shown, the ICC has a zero-tolerance approach to corruption and anything that can negate that possibility is something we are definitely interested in,” ICC spokesman James Fitzgerald told AFP on Tuesday.

“This is just a precaution; it’s not something we are overly concerned about. But we do feel a team manager’s phone should be used for operational purposes only during matches.

Players and officials will though still be allowed to post Twitter messages when their sides are not playing matches.