The International Cricket Council (ICC) has unveiled its five-man team of security specialists, who will attend all ICC-sanctioned international tours and tournaments. The five are meeting in London this week, for an intensive induction course, organised by ICC's Anti Corruption Unit (ACU). The appointment of security managers was one of the major recommendations put forward by Lord Condon, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner who is now director of the director of the ACU.

Each of the security managers will take charge of two of the Test-playing countries. They are contracted fulltime to ICC, and will attend each series or tournament held in their region. If both a security manager's teams are playing at the same time, one of the others will provide cover.

The five are Arrie de Beer, 47, a former senior police officer in South Africa (responsible for South Africa and Zimbabwe); Lt-Col. Nuruddin Khawaja, 49, who spent 28 years in the Pakistan Army (Pakistan and Bangladesh); John Rhodes, 46, formerly a New South Wales police inspector (Australia and New Zealand); Bob Smalley, 51, a former Metropolitan Police officer and an original member of the Anti Corruption unit (England and West Indies); and NS Virk, 48, a former superintendent with India's Central Bureau of Investigation (India and Sri Lanka).

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