Cricket Australia and other major national sporting bodies are to follow rugby league's ban on exotic bets.
Australia's most prominent professional sports have also backed a federal government proposal to make sports corruption a crime, with penalties of up to 10 years in jail.
The Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS) yesterday met Sports Minister Mark Arbib and gave him a paper on sports corruption.
The paper makes three major recommendations, which the minister endorsed.
Sports-specific national legislation that carries severe penalties for cheating in connection with betting.
Sports can veto exotic or spot bets that they think are at risk of corruption.
Victoria's sports betting Act is adopted across all states and territories, meaning all betting agencies must have integrity agreements with sports.
"A national approach to this is absolutely critical," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.
"To protect the integrity of the sports contest is absolutely vital and it's something that obviously the COMPPS sports have an interest in, but I think the whole Australian public has an interest in as well.
"Without national consistency on these issues, we simply don't believe that our governments are taking this issue seriously enough."
Last week, the NRL banned some exotic bets offered by bookmakers.
It follows last year's match-fixing scandal in the sport, where there was a massive plunge on a penalty goal being the first scoring play in a Canterbury-North Queensland match.
The AFL has already acted against exotic betting.
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