"50 investigations that we are undertaking & majority have links to corruptors in India" : ICC

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"50 investigations that we are undertaking & majority have links to corruptors in India" : ICC

Did the wide-ranging fallout of the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal work as a deterrent against corruption in Indian cricket? Not so, say anti-corruption (ACU) officials in the sport.

These officials say the corruptors now look to target the state leagues as well as lesser known live competitions - smaller in scale and involving more vulnerable players. “We have 50 investigations that we are undertaking and majority have links to corruptors in India,” Steve Richardson, coordinator of investigations, International Cricket Council ACU said in a webinar on Sports Law and Policy on Saturday.

Of late, no high-profile Indian cricketer may have come under the lens, but the player-bookie nexus goes unabated, he said. “Players are the final link in the chain. Problem is with people who organise corruption, who pay the players; who sit outside the sport. I can deliver eight names to Indian governing agencies who are serial offenders and constantly approach the players,” Richardson added.

But for Covid 19 applying the brake on all state leagues, many of them would have been on by now. The Karnataka Premier League (KPL) remains suspended and police investigations are on after some players and a team owner were charged with fixing. “The police has filed partial charge-sheets in KPL matter. We are in the process of examination of that evidence,” BCCI ACU head Ajit Singh said.

“The entire malice emanates from (illegal) betting. Just to make windfall gains illegally through betting, they approach participants (players, support staff, officials, franchise owners) and the amount of money involved is unimaginable - an annual turnover of R30,000-40,000 crore; including sports and other activities. In state leagues, we got betting examined on certain matches and we discovered it comes to the tune of more than 2 million pounds per match,” said Singh.

ACU officials say nothing will change until match-fixing is made a criminal offence in India. “Sri Lanka was the first nation that brought a match-fixing law. For that reason, Sri Lanka cricket is better protected now. In Australia’s case, we are very proactive. At the moment, with no legislation in place in India, they are operating with one hand tied up,” said Richardson.

A robust law would also help protect ICC events better. “In Australia, they can stop someone coming to their country before the tournament. India too has ICC events coming up with the T20 World Cup (2021) and the 2023 ODI World Cup. Legislation would be a game changer.”

Singh said there would be a strong deterrent if the pending Prevention of Sports Fraud bill became law. “Fans put in a huge amount of emotion and this (fixing) happens… It starts at an early stage; those who are in sports betting nurture these players and start using them later for fixing. It needs to be curbed. For that you need a strong law. Currently it is archaic, and some of the conditions are laughable.”

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cric...ia-official/story-z3Xi7qxWgb5g68ap3ZHfHL.html

 

[MenInG]

Dont think this should be a shock. A lot of money at stake in cricket in India so makes sense.

 

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Steven Richardson, ICC coordinator for investigations, said a legislation for match-fixing would be a ‘gamechanger and would be the single most effective thing to happen in terms of protecting the sport’.

In an online symposium organised by the Sports Law and Policy Centre, the ICC official said lack of legislation proved to be a deterrent to curb match-fixing as the governing body could only have control over the players and not the actual criminal syndicate who are the root cause of the problem.

“I could actually deliver to the Indian police or the Indian government now at least eight names of people who are serial offenders and who are constantly approaching players to try and get them to fix matches. But when there is a lack of legislative framework in India, it's very limited to what the police can do. I have great sympathy for them because they try as professionally and hard as they can to actually make the existing legislation work. But the reality is, it wasn't framed with sports corruption in mind. So there is an imperative need for a legislation specific to match fixing,” he said.

“From the ICC perspective, we have a robust anti-corruption system that allows us to take action against players. As much as I do not see the players as the main problem when it comes to match fixing, the players are the final link in the chain, who actually would go out onto the pitch and perform any act if they had agreed to do so,” he elaborated. “The problem as I see is in handling the people who are organising the corruption, the people who are paying the players money, and most of them sit outside the sport.”

'Little we can do'

Ajit Singh, head of BCCI's Anti Corruption Unit, Rebecca John, senior advocate who represented Sreesanth in the IPL spot-fixing case in 2013 and senior journalist Pradeep Magazine were also part of the panel on match-fixing legislation. The discussion was moderated by advocate Suhrith Parthasarthy.

Ajit Singh admitted that with no legislation, the BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit often finds it hard to catch the offenders. “As an anti-corruption agency, there is little we can do to catch the outside participants,” he said.

Richardson also spoke about how criminalisation of betting with no laws against match-fixing were proving to be a bigger problem.

“As far as the legislation is concerned, it's quite an anomaly that you could bet Rs. 500 rupees on the outcome of the match and that would be illegal in India. However, if you are offered $30,000 to a player to underperform in that match, then there's nothing illegal,” he said.

“We have to be very, very clear here that betting itself is not corruption. So what is corruption is people who are trying to get the players to do something in order to make money from betting.”

He cited the example of Sri Lanka which became the first country in the sub-continent to criminalise match-fixing last year and hope India to emulate it soon considering the upcoming T20 World Cup as well as the 2023 World Cup which will be hosted by India.

“At the moment, with no legislation in place, we have good relationship with the Indian police, but they are operating with one hand tied behind their back. But legislation would be a game changer in India. It would be the single most effective thing to happen in terms of protecting the sport,” he said.

https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cric...-anti-corruption-unit-icc/article31878603.ece

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Hardly shocking. 9 out of 10 bookies are from India.

 

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An Indian man has been identified by the Victoria police in Australia as the central figure and kingpin in a global tennis match-fixing and betting scam. Board of Control for Cricket in India’s anti-corruption unit (ACU) head Ajit Singh said on Sunday that the person identified in a Sydney Morning Herald report as Ravinder Dandiwal was a ‘person of interest’.

Singh tells The Indian Express how an (ACU) identifies corruptors but why his hands are tied in the absence of a law which criminalises match-fixing.

How do you identify a person of interest?

The basic idea is to keep your eyes and ears open. There are a lot of people who indulge in betting whenever a match is going on. There are people who bet online and there are people who bet at the ground. There are other sources which give you certain information. You have your entire team of participants; the players, the support staff, the management, the ground staff. These people are regularly given education in anti-corruption matters and educated in what the anti-corruption code is and what their responsibilities are. And if they feel there is something suspicious, they report to us. Then we are in constant touch with anti-corruption agencies of other cricket boards and the International Cricket Council. If something comes to their notice, they pass it onto us. There is an exchange of information.

A lot of things come out in the open. Like somebody is starting a private tournament of their own. So, you go into the background of the tournament. Is it a viable tournament? If it is not a viable tournament, why is he organising it? Is it for the love of sports or is there some other reason? And why is a tournament of no consequence being televised? Like there was this Rajputana League in Jaipur. This league (Rajputana) was being televised because they paid the television channel a hefty amount. Once it is televised, your scope for betting goes up manifold.

We are also in touch with certain sports integrity agencies that monitor various trends, plus we also do some social media monitoring. So, there are many ways in which you get information and you focus on certain people and realise that these are the people involved in it.

So Ravinder Dandiwal (the central figure in tennis fixing scam, according to Victoria Police) was a person of interest even before the news was reported in the Australian media?

Yes, we had gone into his background. He wanted to run a league in Mohali which we scuttled. This was about two to three years back. One of the ways (to scuttle) is that if there is a suspect league, we inform the players that this is a suspect league so they are not supposed to participate in it. So once the BCCI players are out, it is more or less gone for the league.

When Dandiwal planned to organise the league in Mohali, was it the first time he came on the radar?

No, he was already a suspect and that is why there were more reasons to look into why he was organising the league. He was supposed to have organised a league in Nepal which was under a cloud. By then, one knew he was a corruptor and this information had come to us. And we passed on the information to the relevant quarters.

BCCI uses this photograph of Ravinder Dandiwal (right) in its educational sessions.

Have you been able to crack down on these T20 leagues that get matches telecast for the purpose of corrupt activities?

By and large, we have managed to scuttle them. To run a league, you have to build publicity to attract players and you announce prizes. That is when one checks the antecedents of these people.

Dandiwal seems to have moved into tennis, going by what we know so far.

He is a smart operator, in the sense that by and large, he is trying to get his operations done outside India. His idea is to make money through fixing. Now whether the money comes through cricket or tennis or football or wherever he can manage to make someone, who is a participant, compromise, he will do it.

Currently, how many such persons of interest are on the radar of the BCCI’s anti-corruption unit?

Anybody who has come to adverse notice any time is in our database. It is a substantial number. Now the gravity of the person’s threat could be different. Somebody who has been into betting could be a part of it or he may not have graduated to higher levels. He may have tried once or twice to get close to a player. And somebody else would have risen in the ranks. We, as an agency, have nothing to do with betting, what we are concerned about is match-fixing. If betting leads to match-fixing, that is what we (anti-corruption bureau) need to curb. (Tackling) betting is the job of the police. We are in constant interaction with the participants, we hold education classes, we brief them, we also tell them what is the modus operandi of these people. We also show them photographs that these are the guys and ‘just in case you spot them, be careful’. We also have our anti-corruption network, our integrity officers etc. And they also keep an eye.

Recently, Steve Richardson (coordinator of investigations, ICC anti-corruption unit) said that making match-fixing a criminal offence would be a game-changer for India? What are your thoughts?

I was also part of the panel for the symposium (online) and so was Richardson. We need a law against fixing. See in Sreesanth’s case, he was discharged because the court said that whatever action could have been taken against him under the existing rules and regulations, the BCCI is taking. Unfortunately, there is no criminal law under which his act can be defined as an offence. ‘I have no option but to discharge him’… this is what the judge said.

We are a non-enforcement agency, in comparison to say a DRI (Directorate of Revenue Intelligence) which draws its powers through a legal statute. We do not have powers to summon people who are not participants or obtain records or for search and seizure. These powers are with the police and other enforcement agencies. Once they have a law under which they can act, then control over them (bookies/fixers) would be very effective. Right now, we can’t do anything to Dandiwal even if we have some information.

If you have information about someone like a Dandiwal, does the anti-corruption unit have powers to question him at least?

No. We don’t have the power to question a person. We can request him (to come for questioning). If he comes, fine, but if he does not, there is little we can do. Also (without a law), police will be able to only question him if he has committed a crime. That is why we say we need a match-fixing law. If the law comes through, it will be of great benefit.

In top leagues in the country across sports, like the IPL or say the kabaddi league or a badminton league, what level of corruption exists, if at all?

As far as IPL is concerned, I think after the action that was taken in earlier cases, everybody is aware of it and they realise (the repercussions). In the last two IPLs – and I am saying last two IPLs because I have been in-charge for those two years – nothing has come to light which indicates corruption. And it is a constant sort of (vigilance) because new players come in, education needs to be done. Players need to be updated, the anti-corruption code also keeps getting updated with new provisions, like in terms of the authority to ask participants for various documents, the gadgets and communication devices they use and call details etc.

Social media is everywhere now, so how big a challenge is it to monitor activity?

Social media is something that needs to be constantly monitored and looked into. You have an account on Facebook, you pose as a great fan of a player and it could be an account in a wrong name. Then you can try and gather friends, like those who are into cricket and are cricket fans and then somehow move close into the playing fraternity by building contacts and then trying to exploit it.

https://indianexpress.com/article/s...-ravinder-dandiwal-fixing-corruption-6482223/

 

[chacha kashmiri]

It's really scary
The pressure on the players are immense too
Not sure when cricket will fight back against these pirates

 

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Mohali police on Monday arrested Ravinder Dandiwal to probe his involvement in a T20 competition that purportedly tried to pass off a place in Punjab as Sri Lanka. Already on the radar of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the past four years, Dandiwal will be interrogated by the Anti-Corruption Unit on Tuesday, said SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal.

The arrest comes three days after two bookies, Rajesh Garg and Pankaj Arora, were nabbed in connection with a competition in Punjab from June 29 to July 5. A local court remanded the three to police custody for five days.

Chahal said Dandiwal, also named by the Victoria Police in Australia as a suspect in a tennis fixing scandal, will be investigated in connection with Uva T20 league which tried to show it was being held in Sri Lanka when it was being conducted in a cricket academy in Sawara village, about 15km from Chandigarh. Uva is a province in Sri Lanka.

The players were wearing masks and footage accessed had mostly long shots of players in numbered shirts but with their backs to the camera.

The competition was aired on YouTube and on other social media platforms such as Fancode APP, Diamond, Sky, Lotus, Tenbet, Spin and Punjab Exchange and was part of a betting racket, said Chahal. The players involved were offered between Rs 5000 to Rs 10000, he said.

The role of some Ranji players in hosting the meet is also under investigation, said Chahal without naming anyone.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cric...al-s-arrest/story-gSWzxzjk1gUzNGgyrKASIJ.html

 

[sweep_shot]

Not surprising.

ICC needs to handle this well. I don't think they are doing enough.

 

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A two-member team of BCCI anti-corruption unit was given access to alleged match-fixer Ravinder Dandiwal in Mohali on Tuesday, a day after he was arrested by Punjab Police for his role in organising an unsanctioned T20 game near Mohali, which was masqueraded as an event in Sri Lanka.

The BCCI team travelled from Delhi to Mohali to share and gather information on Dandiwal.

BCCI ACU chief Ajit Singh told PTI that Dandiwal’s arrest has had ripples in the world of corruptors.

“Our team was allowed access to him. At this stage, we don’t know anything more than we already know about him and his activities. Punjab Police have him for five days, it will continue its investigation and if something comes up, they will let us know,” Singh, who was not part of the travelling team.

Singh thanked Punjab Police for their co-operation in this case.

“We are thankful to them that they have taken prompt and effective action. His arrest has had ripples in the world of corruptors and will have salutary effect. It has sent a strong message. There are certain things we need to verify before we can comment on them,” Singh added.

The T20 game was played on June 29, 16 km from Chandigarh, but was streamed as a ‘Uva T20 League’ match in Sri Lanka’s Badulla city, home of the Uva Province Cricket Association (UPCA). Both UPCA and Sri Lanka Cricket have denied any involvement in this dubious league.

Speaking to PTI last week, ACU chief Singh had called Mohali-based Dandiwal a known corruptor after Vicoria Police in Australia named him as the “central figure” in the tennis match-fixing scandal in which low-ranked tennis players were allegedly convinced to throw matches in at least two events in Egypt and Brazil in 2018.

He has been on BCCI’s watchlist for the past four years.

“I can talk about his cricket (links only) but he has moved to other sports also. He tried to organise his own leagues and once he does that, he fixes games the way he wants it,” Singh had said.

Dandiwal had also organised the Asian Premier League in Nepal and the Afghan Premier League. He also tried to organise a league in Haryana which the BCCI scuttled.

“He has been operating more outside India than in India but has been on the BCCI radar for at least 3-4 years,” Singh had said.

https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cric...atch-fixing-punjab-police/article32015785.ece

 

[Monsee]

Hardly shocking. 9 out of 10 bookies are from India.

And going by the 'heavy involvement' of Indian posters so far in this thread, that 10th one is probably one of them Indian origin PP posters

 

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Taking the IPL to the UAE would be quite a task logistically for the tournament organisers but for BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit head Ajit Singh, the move will make monitoring the event “slightly easier” as it would be restricted to just three venues.

The IPL will start in the UAE from September 19 and the final will be held on November 8 with three stadiums -- Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi hosting the 60 games over 51 days.

“In the UAE, it will be slightly easier doing (monitoring ACU activity) as there are only three grounds compared to eight venues in India. That’s not an issue at all. Once the schedule comes, we will decided the workforce,” Singh told PTI during an interaction.

The UAE, in 2014, hosted the first part of IPL due to general elections in India.

Singh said currently, there are “eight ACU officers who are on BCCI payrolls”.

So, will that be enough in terms of managing the work through 60 matches as well as keeping a tab on hotels? It will depend on the kind of bio-security bubble created, reckoned the former Rajasthan top cop.

“It’s too early to comment on measures as we need to first check what kind of bio-security measures will be created. We first need to see how things are taking shape there and we will deploy our men accordingly,” Singh said.

“In case, we need men, we will hire them,” he added.

With the ICC headquartered in Dubai, the BCCI, if need be, can take help of the global body which has a huge team of ACU officials who can be hired, according to a BCCI official.

“If it is a private league that approaches ICC for hiring ACU officers and they agree to cover the event, then the league organisers bear the costs,” the senior official told PTI.

The BCCI might need some more workforce considering that each team will have one dedicated ‘Integrity Officer’ as per rules.

“It is the BCCI that will designate one Integrity officer per team during the course of the IPL. Now whether they will be a part of the bio-bubble (if created), we don’t know, but the Integrity officer is completely their domain,” a senior franchise official clarified the rules.


The UAE does have a history of being a hot bed for bookies and fixers but the ACU head is quite confident that intelligence gathering will not be hampered by this shift of tournament.

“Whoever is involved (bookies/fixers) they are all inter-connected. If we have our sources here, they also know how these bookies operate.

“If they get an information of this place, they will get an information of that place also. It’s not so much of an issue,” he said.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cric...-ajit-singh/story-HtqemUiZbo7a1at3D3YerK.html

 

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HYDERABAD: A five-member gang, which was organising online betting on Pakistan Super League (PSL) cricket matches in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, was arrested by the Cyberabad police on Tuesday.

The gang was operating from Nizampet. Police seized over Rs 20 lakh cash, equipment used for betting, and other material from the gang. The kingpin of the gang Somanna is absconding, the police said.

Based on a tip-off, the Special Operations Team along with Bachupally police station staff raided the place and caught the organisers -- Gunturi Satya Pavan Kumar, Uddara Raju, Ch. Trinath, Nandipamu Bhaskar, and Jakkapudi Prasad, said Cyberabad police commissioner VC Sajjanar.

The arrested accused obtained access to online betting from Somanna and procured devices to organise betting. Using their contacts of bookies in Hyderabad, they operated the racket. The profit and loss of the punters could be viewed real-time on online betting apps such as Live Line Guru, Cricket Mazza, Lotus, Bet-365, Bet fair and etc, which were provided by the organisers.

The transactions were also done online, but in some cases it is through net cash. The cash transactions between Somanna and Gunturi Satya Pavan Kumar are done through hawala money. Cash and devices, all worth Rs 23.80 lakh, have been seized.

Sajjanar has advised parents to keep a strict vigil on their children and check if they are indulging in betting. It is learnt that students are taking money from their parents on the pretext of tuition fees and indulging in betting. Be vigilant about the following mobile apps: Bet 365, Dream 11, MPL, Betway, Dream Guru, My 11 Circle, Bet 365, Coral, Bwin, 777 Bet, Dafabet, Winner, Cricket Betting 2020, Just Bet, Betfred, Lotus Cricket Line, he said.

Police also warned of theft of bank accounts and personal data of people indulging in betting, which may result in unauthorised money transfer and blackmailing using personal photos, data, etc

IndianExpress

 

[Monsee]

What does it mean when silence is deafening on a cricket forum?
(I'n'diomatic) A silence, or a lack of any response, such as due to disapproval or lack of any enthusiasm when the topic is fixing and most being mentioned are from their own homeland.

 

[street cricketer]

Geez there's a difference between betting and fixing and it's not really nuclear physics to find it hard to grasp the difference. I always get annoyed when people can't grasp the simple difference.

Betting is when ordinary people bet on the results of matches. Cricket being a religion in India with Indians being the most mad about cricket than any other country in the world and India having a 1.3 billion population, you are of course going to find most of the betting happening in India. It happens in the west too, but cricket isn't the most popular game in the western countries like the UK, NZ and even Australia to some extent and betting is legal in those countries.

Fixing is when cricket players indulge in shady activities and influence the action of the game with pre determined decisions.

You should be ashamed only if fixing happens and one of your national cricketers indulge in fixing. Why would anyone be ashamed of betting happening in one's country. Illegal stuff and crime always happens in every country. Are you ashamed of your nationality every time a Pakistani commits a crime in the country or outside?

 

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Chhattisgarh Police arrested four persons for operating an online cricket betting racket here, it was announced on Friday.

Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Yadav told The Pioneer that the four were Dilip Chawla, Sanjay Chawla, Mehul Chandani and Suraj Singh Rajput, all residents of Raipur city. The accused were taking online bets at Avanti Vihar on the one-day cricket match played between Pakistan and England on Thursday night. Police seized 33 mobile phones, a laptop, an electronic device, a TV, a calculator and Rs 15,000 in cash from them.

https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/state-editions/four-held-for-running-cricket-betting-racket.html

 

[MenInG]

Brendan Taylor case shows corruption is an issue in India when it comes to cricket - How many others have been offered and not reported?

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The 35-year-old batsman said he was invited by an Indian businessman in October 2019 to discuss “sponsorships and the potential launch of a T20 competition in Zimbabwe and was advised that I would be paid USD$15 000 for the journey”.

The invitation came when the team had not received salaries for six months and there were concerns the country would not be able to continue playing internationally.

 

[Monsee]

Is it even a surprise that any new fixing/corruption etc. issue is almost always tied to an Indian bookie/contact?

I mean, Indians can say whatever they want but 99% of all connections almost always point to an Indian origin as the instigator of the offer/bribe.

Oh well, like Indian fans always say 'Poor BCCI and Indian govt are helpless to do anything to stop it', yeah that def is the truth...rest of the world must keep saying India is not the centre of all fixing/corruption in the world because they generate so much for the game

 

[Varun]

Is it even a surprise that any new fixing/corruption etc. issue is almost always tied to an Indian bookie/contact?

I mean, Indians can say whatever they want but 99% of all connections almost always point to an Indian origin as the instigator of the offer/bribe.

Oh well, like Indian fans always say 'Poor BCCI and Indian govt are helpless to do anything to stop it', yeah that def is the truth...rest of the world must keep saying India is not the centre of all fixing/corruption in the world because they generate so much for the game

Much rather have the bookies than the player-fixers tbh.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

I am pretty sure ICC is trying to deliberately ignore the elephant in the room i.e. IPL.

 

[Monsee]

Much rather have the bookies than the player-fixers tbh.

As if that worked very well in India.

 

[Monsee]

I am pretty sure ICC is trying to deliberately ignore the elephant in the room i.e. IPL.

Why do they need to even do that, unlike you most of your fellow countrymen (one commented above) are more than willing to act as if that means anything!

For a player to fix a game, a bookie has to exist first and if 99% or more almost always are from India, then shame on anyone who are willing to look the other way in the name of national jingoism

 

[Varun]

Why do they need to even do that, unlike you most of your fellow countrymen (one commented above) are more than willing to act as if that means anything!

For a player to fix a game, a bookie has to exist first and if 99% or more almost always are from India, then shame on anyone who are willing to look the other way in the name of national jingoism

This is cricket. Where do you expect them to be from? Morocco? Suriname?

 

[Monsee]

This is cricket. Where do you expect them to be from? Morocco? Suriname?

Obviously expect them to come from the most corrupt country. The fact that most Indian fans bait, taunt, ridicule others on players that get involved in corrupt practices (including you) while several of your players including a few in IPL have been involved in shady dealings and almost all bookies coming from India...last thing one should do is to try and lecture anyone or act smug!

Yet, you guys cannot accept your hypocrisy and this air of resignation when someone says anything against all that.

 

[Cricfan4eva]

Much rather have the bookies than the player-fixers tbh.

Brutal. lol

 

[Cricfan4eva]

There was this documentary by Al Jazeera? It said so much of this was happening, what did ICC do against that? I remember it talked about plenty of leagues being spawned in UAE and here we see one new T10, T20 etc. leagues coming up every other week there.

I would have absolute no doubt if the current legend series has plenty of bookie involvement either.

So much cricket without quality is simply not commercially viable unless there is something else pumping in the money.

At this point as a fan you can only hope that the cricket you're watching is clean. When select countries/boards also run the international sport too, you can only expect so much policing.

 

[silentkiller187]

its all swings and roundabouts, sreesanth is a convicted fixer, yet he has put his name forward for this years IPL auctions, all countries leagues are at it, ICC needs to come down hard.

 

[Savak]

The country of India is the hot bed of corruption therefore no surprises there

 

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Police raided a hotel room in Thane city and arrested two persons who were allegedly betting on cricket matches of the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL), an official said on Monday.

Senior inspector (Crime Branch Unit I) Anil Deshmukh said acting on a tip-off, a police team raided the hotel on Sunday and arrested the duo betting on one of the T20 matches of PSL.

The police seized four mobile phones, a calculator and a diary from the two, identified as Deepak Thakkar, 56, and Jitendra Chande, 48, he said.

A case under various sections of the IPC and Maharashtra's anti-gambling Act has been registered against the duo, the officer added.

https://www.freepressjournal.in/mum...g-on-cricket-matches-of-pakistan-super-league