ICC BANS TWITTER DURING MATCHES

The ICC is to impose a blanket ban on all twitter posts by team officials during matches in a bid to be seen to be doing all it can do to crack down corruption.

Long serving Australian manager Steve bernard has been tweeting since last year august.

ICC chiefs insists that they have no issues on what bernard had posted in past.

But, given players are banned from having access to mobile phones during matches they thought it prudent following he spot fixing scandal recently involving pakistan to avoid a situation where team officials left themselves open to corruption claims,however baseless as a result of twitter posts.

"As recent events have shown that ICC have zero-tolerance to corruption and any thing that can negate that possibility is some thing we are definitely interested in" one of spokesman told AFP on tuesday.

"This is just a precaution, we are not overly concerned with it. But we do fell that team manager's phone should be used for operational purpose during matches".

"This applies to all teams and this decision is not taken in response to anything the Australia team manager had previously".

Players and officials are still allowed to post when their sides are not playing