The International Cricket Council is drawing up plans to address what it has described as "significant corruption concerns" in franchise tournaments worldwide, having found "growing evidence" that corrupters were "infiltrating leagues and players across a number of different member territories". According to documentation seen by BBC Sport, the governing body's integrity unit has flagged the problem, and the ICC intends to set up a working party to harmonise franchise cricket within the international calendar and examine how corruption might be tackled more effectively. The move matters because of the rapid global growth of franchise leagues, which the ICC believes are increasingly exposed to organised corruption and illegal betting.

Among the strategies to be discussed by the ICC's executive committee at its annual conference in Edinburgh are widening the circumstances in which it sanctions a domestic league, so that more tournaments would require approval, and strengthening its powers to intervene where integrity concerns go unaddressed. Currently, a league in a non-full member country only needs ICC approval if it features more than four players who have represented a full member national team within the previous 24 months. Separately, the ICC will ratify Mauritius as a new member on Saturday, having rejected applications from Colombia, Poland, Latvia, Burundi and Burkina Faso; USA Cricket and Cricket Canada remain suspended over governance, while France and Italy also face scrutiny over their governance structures.