NPL Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU)

In India, betting and match-fixing in cricket is a major issue. Around 20,000 people are involved nationwide, generating nearly 10,000 crore INR in unofficial business. To tackle this, the NPL Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) focuses on investigation, education, and prevention.

History and Evolution

The ACSU’s first Terms of Reference covered three years until the end of the NPL National T20 Championships. These terms were later updated to reflect its expanded role. Since August 2005, the unit has officially been named the NPL Anti-Corruption and Security Unit.

Its Two Principal Roles are:

The Code of Conduct and Discipline (CCD) describes a procedure for dealing with disciplinary problems within the game, and gives general descriptions of unacceptable conduct from players. The Code fully endorses the ‘Spirit of Cricket’ Preamble to the 2000 Code of Laws. It is to be read in conjunction with the NPL Players’ Code of Conduct.

  • The Anti-Corruption and Security Unit is an operating division of the NPL Cricket Code of Conduct Commission, which is chaired chairman of legal committee of NPL Cricket INDIA

  • Allegations of corrupt activity are probed thoroughly by the Unit’s Investigators, sometimes with the assistance of concern state Police Officers. In support of their efforts, the ACSU’s Information Manager continues to build an national network of contacts in both the legal and illegal markets so that where concerns are raised the Unit is able to activate these relationships and effectively investigate allegations.
  • All players and officials that take part in the top level of Indian cricket pass through the ACSU’s education program.
  • As part of the education process, players are given details of the ways in which corruptors may seek to ‘groom’ them from an early age as well as the penalties that exist – not just for fixing all or part of a match but also for accepting money, benefit or other reward for the provision of information or failing to disclose the inappropriate conduct of others.

  • In organized sports, match fixing or game fixing occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law. When the sporting competition in question is a race, the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games.

    When a team intentionally loses a game to gain a perceived future competitive advantage, rather than for gamblers, the team is said to have tanked the game instead of throwing it. In pool hustling, this practice of deliberately losing is known as dumping.

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