Steve Waugh believes the use of lie detector tests on players could be a step towards ridding cricket of corruption.
The former Australian captain personally brought forward the proposal during Tuesday's meeting of the MCC World Cricket Committee in Perth, where the hot topic of match-fixing was top of the agenda.
The cricketing world has been rocked by several corruption scandals this year, to the extent the World Cricket Committee have proposed amending the laws of the game - through the Spirit of Cricket Preamble - to specifically forbid the corruption or attempted corruption of a match.
Along with the rule change, Waugh, a member of the committee, will head a working party that also includes Barry Richards and Courtney Walsh, which will discuss more concrete ways of eradicating corruption.
Waugh said that once all the necessary research was done, the party would ultimately present several formal proposals to the International Cricket Council (ICC).
And from Wednesday's initial briefing, it seems they won't be afraid to look at some unpopular measures, with lie detectors, the legalisation of betting in India and the addition of anti-corruption clauses to playing contracts just some of their early ideas.
"I think this is the greatest issue confronting the game right now," declared Waugh.
"It's something we've got to try and work towards getting into a better situation."
"(The meeting) was about throwing some ideas around (and) the lie detector test actually came from me."
"I was thinking about it, how can we make players more accountable for their actions?"
"I'm thinking personally, if you've done nothing wrong why wouldn't you want to have a lie detector test to say you've done nothing wrong."
"Of course you can't make it compulsory," he conceded.
"But I'm saying if players want to take a lie detector test and say they've done nothing wrong, then I don't see anything wrong with that, it's just one step, it doesn't mean everyone has to take it."
Waugh said team captains had to set an example to younger members when it came to corruption, the 45-year-old referring to former South African skipper Hansie Cronje and Pakistan's Salman Butt.
Butt and fellow Pakistan players Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer have all been charged under the ICC's anti-corruption code following newspaper allegations of spot-fixing during the fourth Test against England at Lord's last August.
Having been on the other side of the controversy it was not surprising that England captain Andrew Strauss was one of the first to back Waugh in principal.
"I'll have to think about the arguments one side and another first," said Strauss when asked if he'd be prepared to support lie detector tests.
"The devil of all these things is in the detail and if we have to take extreme measures in order to be 100 per cent confident the game's being played in the right spirit, then I would certainly be happy to do that."
"We don't want the whiff of anything suspicious going on in the game."
The Committee's call for the legalisation of cricket gambling in India, where black market betting is conservatively estimated to be worth $30 billion (US dollars), is a move that was already suggested by an Indian court last September.
Such a move has also been backed by former Indian skipper Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who believes the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) need to pressure India's government into such a move.
"Everybody said the money (in the spot-fixing allegations) emanated from India," Pataudi told Cricinfo. "That is an accusation that hurts but it rings true."
"The BCCI itself has several central cabinet ministers, it has leaders in the opposition; it can certainly lobby for more stringent laws," he said.