Jail sentence for Mervyn Westfield would help fight corruption, says International Cricket Council chief Westfield is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Feb 10 after pleading guilty last week to accepting corrupt payments related to an agreement to bowl badly in a Pro40 match for Essex against Durham in Sept 2009. Judge Anthony Morris warned Westfield, 23, he faces jail when he returns to court with a precedent set last year with the prison sentences handed down to Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. Haroon Lorgat, who stands down as chief executive of the ICC in June, described the spot-fixing scandal as the hardest issue during his time with the governing body but agreed jail terms help the fight against corruption. "It can only help," he said when asked if a prison sentence for Westfield will help keep the game clean. I would not want to speculate but if what happened to the three Pakistani players happens again there would be a lot of attention paid to what can happen. The Westfield case proved that corruption exists below international level in domestic cricket which is harder to monitor due to the volume of matches played and thin resources dedicated to anti-corruption. "We can't underestimate the value of the integrity of the game," he told the BBC. If that goes we have no game. It is the most significant issue we need to tackle. From our investigations, I don't think it is widespread as some people make out but I have a particular concern that we have tightened up around the international circuit but it [fixing] could move down to the domestic scene. We have encouraged all boards to replicate the ACU at domestic level and they are in the process of doing so. The England & Wales Cricket Board established an anti-corruption department last year and last week announced a three-month window during which cricketers can report suspicious activity without facing prosecution for failing to tell the authorities about it sooner. The ICC are monitoring the success of that scheme before deciding whether to replicate it in international cricket.