{"id":3189,"date":"2001-10-09T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2001-10-09T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2021-02-21T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:29:12","slug":"cool-response-to-lie-tests-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/09\/cool-response-to-lie-tests-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cool Response to Lie-Tests Proposal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/in_depth\/2001\/england_in_zimbabwe\/1588351.stm\">reports<\/a> on a proposal under consideration by the International Cricket Conference (ICC) to require Test cricketers to submit to polygraph interrogations every six months. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Player representatives have given a cool response to a proposal to make Test cricketers undergo lie detector tests every six months as part of the fight to stamp out match-fixing.<\/p><p>It is one of a range of measures being considered by the International Cricket Council in an attempt to improve the game&#8217;s image.<\/p><p>The introduction of lie detectors was mooted by Judge Edwin King in his report on South Afirca&#8217;s match-fixing inquiry, set up following the sacking of former captain Hansie Cronje.<\/p><p>The ICC will discuss the matter further at a meeting next week.<\/p><p>But David Graveney, joint chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers&#8217; Associations (FICA), told BBC Sport Online the idea &#8220;may be bordering on the unreasonable&#8221;.<\/p><p>He said: &#8220;Lie detection is something that legally you have to look at in order to protect the player.<\/p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;d support reasonable and proper measures but we are still duty bound to defend the liberty of an individual.<\/p><p>&#8220;As far as I can see, a lot of people have serious reservations.&#8221;<\/p><p>Graveney&#8217;s view echoed that of Tim May, the other joint chief of FICA and head of the Australian Cricketers Association.<\/p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re keen to put in reasonable procedures to ensure we can eradicate match-fixing from the game, but there are reasonable procedures and unreasonable procedures.<\/p><p>&#8220;My gut feeling at this stage, without knowing the reliability of lie detectors, is this may well be on the unreasonable side,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports on a proposal under consideration by the International Cricket Conference (ICC) to require Test cricketers to submit to polygraph interrogations every six months. Excerpt: Player representatives have given a cool response to a proposal to make Test cricketers undergo lie detector tests every six months as part of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[120,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-3189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-cricket","8":"tag-sports","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}