Shop any suspected match-fixers, says England's captain Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss marked his return to the Test captaincy today by urging England's professional cricketers to shop players they might suspect of being caught up in attempted match-fixing. Strauss's return for the first Test against Bangladesh at Lord's tomorrow comes amid allegations from an unnamed county player that he was told to "name his own price" by an Indian bookmaker to influence a one-day game this season. The player has remained anonymous because of fears about his safety. The Professional Cricketers' Association is liaising with the ICC's anti-corruption unit on his behalf. Strauss said at Lord's today: "We have a duty if we hear of [match fixing] in domestic cricket or with England to come forward and report it straight away. For players to be tempted to take bookmakers' money is ludicrous. From my experience, I haven't seen anything in the Middlesex dressing room or had any reason to suspect that a game I have played in has been fixed in any way. If it is happening, it needs to be stamped out straight away." The warning last week by Lord Condon, the outgoing head of the anti-corruption unit, that match-fixing and spot-fixing – where bets are placed on individual moments of a game – represents a risk to English domestic cricket comes less than a week before the start of England's Twenty20 tournament. Strauss' return to Test action felt rather like an old western, when the sheriff returns to town to receive dark hints from a group of gunslingers that things may have changed around town while he has been away. A deputy, Alastair Cook, has won a shootout in Chittagong and since his accomplice Paul Collingwood won the World Twenty20, the singing and dancing has never stopped in the saloon . Strauss shrugs it off. "I'm excited to be back among the group again," he said. "After all they have achieved there is a real vibrancy in the team. It is important that I give good, strong leadership. As for my batting, hopefully I can hit the ground running. "You would have to ask the other players if my authority has been diluted. I don't believe so. The way that Alastair Cook went about the captaincy in Bangladesh wasn't radically different to the way I go about things. There has been some consistency in the way we operate. And Paul Collingwood has always been one of the leaders in the team and he is a good friend. He is an incredibly loyal source of advice. "Nothing has changed. The downside was a short-term change of leadership. Hopefully the upside will outweigh it this summer, in Australia and beyond. It is not all about backslapping. It is about making improvements in Test cricket. We don't make enough big hundreds, some of our bowling needs to improve in unfavourable conditions and we want our fielding to be the best in the world." Strauss also gave the strongest indication yet that Eoin Morgan, who until now has been regarded as a one-day specialist, will, as expected, make his Test debut at Lord's. "I am very confident he can succeed," he said. "He has a very good ability to read games well and a very good temperament, and those guys often succeed in Test cricket. I don't think there is anything wrong with his technique and the potential upside of his inclusion is huge. "This is the first step on his journey in a Test career. I have no doubt that he is at the start of a very distinguished Test career. If he is given a chance to take the game away from our opponents it will be very exciting to see it."