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@Pmalek. I would assume that most of the users here don't have an idea about the game of cricket. That is natural, given the fact that it is a sport that is mostly confined to South Asia (especially India, Pakistan, Bangladesh). If cricket is being played in other countries, it is mostly done by expats from the South Asian region. Now for those who are not familiar with cricket - match fixing is very prevalent in this sport. In football, FIFA has managed to almost wipeout match fixing. But the corresponding governing body has failed to do the same in cricket. And that is partly because the governing body itself is being headed by corrupt people like Greg Barclay and Sharad Pawar.
Topic: The Cricket Match-Fixing Scandal - page 3. (Read 646 times)
These are all words, guesses, assumptions and coincidences. If there are facts, then where are the criminal cases and court decisions?
I don't know how the affair ended. I didn't do any research about the aftermath of the revelations. Someone who follows cricket with a bit more passion would certainly be able to give you better answers. This is what I know:
The Internationa Cricket Council asked Al Jazeera to send them all the documented "evidence" they gathered so they can investigate the case. I have no idea what the result of those investigations were and if there were any at all. Again, someone more interested in the sport should be able to tell you more.
Make sure you read the other posts in this thread because several members mentioned that certain players and clubs were banned from the sport in different periods of time.
In my opinion it is very difficult to prove that a player or his management was involved in a match-fixing operation. In addition, there is often corruption in law enforcement and minimal publicity plays into the hands of these types of scammers. Maybe that's why we don't see so many high-profile match-fixing cases.
Why is it so difficult to prove? If a player or a franchise owner is receiving money that he can't explain, that should be taken as an evidence, right? Recently Heath Streak of Zimbabwe was handed out suspension, after it was found that he received 2 BTC from a bookie, in order to fix some of the franchise T20 matches. All the evidence was there, in the form of Bitcoin transactions and the logs from the cryptocurrency exchange which was used by Streak to convert these Bitcoins to fiat.
In my opinion it is very difficult to prove that a player or his management was involved in a match-fixing operation. In addition, there is often corruption in law enforcement and minimal publicity plays into the hands of these types of scammers. Maybe that's why we don't see so many high-profile match-fixing cases.
In some cases people are sentenced to several years in prison for match-fixing, add to that various disqualifications and we'll see that the penalties are severe enough to stop this unlawful and shameful activity. Only it's enough for people with brains. There's always a moron who will still be doing it.
In my opinion it is very difficult to prove that a player or his management was involved in a match-fixing operation. In addition, there is often corruption in law enforcement and minimal publicity plays into the hands of these types of scammers. Maybe that's why we don't see so many high-profile match-fixing cases.
So you think that match fixing is done with the knowledge from the higher officials, i think it is highly unlikely. BCCI conducted the IPL in UAE which included Emirates such as Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi and if there is fixing it cannot be isolated to one region. Pakistan players were caught when they were involved in spot fixing in a match in England and the rules are strict as these players has to risk their career and the fortune they can make through cricket.
For the players, there is always a risk of ruining their career. Even those accused of fake charges have lost their career, and Sreesanth is a perfect example. But for the franchise owners, it looks as if they are not risking anything by fixing matches of their own team. Even if they are caught, the powerful people will come to their rescue, like we saw in 2015. IPL betting is very widespread even now, and involves billions of USD every season. But I am not sure whether the matches are still getting fixed or not. Given the fact that those who were accused in the 2015 scandal are still owning the teams, I will not discount any such possibility.
In Indian Premier Leagle (IPL) also it happened and two teams were banned for 2 years for their owners involved in wrong doings like fixing or something like that.And still people claims that the match-fixing happening in IPL and the whole cricket community but it doesn't look like any longer after 2018 and later in my opinion.
Whenever I hear match fixing in cricket I remember Hansie Cronje, the ex south african captain. What a good batsman he was but everything got ruined after it was found that he was part of a big match fixing syndicate. Unfortunately he died in a air crash before big names could have come out.
I saw this documentary quite a while ago. Not shocking to say the least.
A lot of these smaller leagues are created for the sole purpose of enriching the founder of the leagues as well as insiders who have access to the players. And the easiest way to do that is to arrange match fixes with players and teams directly.
Even tests and ODIs can be fixed, although probably nowhere near the scale of the fixing that is going on in domestic T20s. Poorly paid international cricketers are notorious for match fixing scandals in the past (SA, Pakistan, etc.)
A lot of these smaller leagues are created for the sole purpose of enriching the founder of the leagues as well as insiders who have access to the players. And the easiest way to do that is to arrange match fixes with players and teams directly.
Even tests and ODIs can be fixed, although probably nowhere near the scale of the fixing that is going on in domestic T20s. Poorly paid international cricketers are notorious for match fixing scandals in the past (SA, Pakistan, etc.)
Emirates such as Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi are considered as main operating grounds of the cricket match fixing mafias. And this is one of the reasons why the BCCI decided not to stage any triangular or quadrilateral tournaments there anymore. But now the fixing has spread to other parts of the world as well. And ever since people like Srinivasan and Sharad Pawar got power within the BCCI/ICC, there has been an increase in such incidents.
So you think that match fixing is done with the knowledge from the higher officials, i think it is highly unlikely. BCCI conducted the IPL in UAE which included Emirates such as Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi and if there is fixing it cannot be isolated to one region. Pakistan players were caught when they were involved in spot fixing in a match in England and the rules are strict as these players has to risk their career and the fortune they can make through cricket. 
I'm not a cricket specialist, but this whole story looks fantastic. As far as I understand, no one has direct evidence and no criminal cases have been initiated, right? I do not believe in the reality of the events described by journalists. By the way, if they really paid someone to find out the result of the match fixing, perhaps they were simply deceived (the result that was predicted was obtained for natural reasons) by a fraudster who invented all these stories about the syndicate.
I think there are too many coincidences for it not be real. Players and ex-players were certainly involved because some of them even appear in the video. At one meeting, the reporter wanted assurances that the players would do what the syndicate asks them too. And one professional player who sits at the table tells the reporter that's the whole point. We will fix the matches the way the scenarios have been laid out because we are all interested in the same thing, making money. These are all words, guesses, assumptions and coincidences. If there are facts, then where are the criminal cases and court decisions? As for coincidences, there are a lot of them in life and often they seem incredible. Even in individual sports matches, something happens that is remembered for decades (like the loss of Bavaria to Manchester United in the Champions League final on the last minutes).
I'm not a cricket specialist, but this whole story looks fantastic. As far as I understand, no one has direct evidence and no criminal cases have been initiated, right? I do not believe in the reality of the events described by journalists. By the way, if they really paid someone to find out the result of the match fixing, perhaps they were simply deceived (the result that was predicted was obtained for natural reasons) by a fraudster who invented all these stories about the syndicate.
Match fixing exists in most of the sports but since i follow cricket more, there are many incidents of match fixing in this sport. There are evidences for such fixing also but not all of them have been dealt with. Some players have lost their career because of this match fixing while some managed to get away with it.
I’m not sure if there’s any way to stop this from happening. Even if they paid the players more the criminals would just target the officials.
The players in cricket are already paid good salaries. The issue is that they found other ways to manipulate the scores in their favor, like bribing groundsmen to make the pitch fit for either batsmen or bowlers. The groundsmen couldn't care less, the money they get for manipulating just one match is equal to years and years of working and maintaining the pitch.Unfortunately this is the sad reality of many sports, the mafia can be extremely effective to get cooperation from athletes, after all if they do not cooperate they can always go against them or their family and most people will take the money even if they do not want...
The problem with taking a bribe, is that they won't stop after only one time. If you help them make money once, they'll have you by your balls and force you to comply to their demands all the time, otherwise they'll expose you, destroy your career, and have you banned. Some players probably don't think that far ahead, and think why not do it once for an unimportant tournament. After doing it once, it turns into a nightmare. Not only in Dubai and Sri Lanka, but it also exists in many countries where there are corrupt officials and dishonest players unless there are whistleblowers, they can always get away, what we read and documented are those exposed but there are many fixed games that are not exposed and those who participated made huge money, there's a lot of money top be made in game fixing.
Emirates such as Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi are considered as main operating grounds of the cricket match fixing mafias. And this is one of the reasons why the BCCI decided not to stage any triangular or quadrilateral tournaments there anymore. But now the fixing has spread to other parts of the world as well. And ever since people like Srinivasan and Sharad Pawar got power within the BCCI/ICC, there has been an increase in such incidents.
Watch the rest of the documentary where the syndicate members provide details of how they plan to fix an international cricket tournament in Dubai with members of all teams owned and controlled by the mafia organization.
Have you heard of this betting scandal before, and what is your opinion of all this?
For those who had able to know those information then they would just simply shut off their mouths or also being bribe on not to talk about on what they do know this is why
its common that those rigging incidents wont really go into public until it would be bust out by someone who cant really be handled on not to speak about it.
Those cricket match fixers didn't share any information with the general public either. But they did cooperate with 20-30 wealthy businessmen who were willing to pay the syndicate plenty of money for insider information about fixed match segments. They could have probably stayed under the radar for longer had they not done that, but the potential to earn even more money made them not care that much.its common that those rigging incidents wont really go into public until it would be bust out by someone who cant really be handled on not to speak about it.
...despite all these revelations by the channel i have not seen any charges against anyone. Did the ICC investigate these issues because i cannot see any article that says about charges against anyone and these are serious allegation.
In one part of the video interview, the investigator asks his point of contact, what about the ICC. The syndicate member replies something like: If you have enough money, you can do anything. You can interpret that however you want. To me it sounds like there is a price that can be paid even to the ICC to turn a blind eye and not look in your direction. I'm not a cricket specialist, but this whole story looks fantastic. As far as I understand, no one has direct evidence and no criminal cases have been initiated, right? I do not believe in the reality of the events described by journalists. By the way, if they really paid someone to find out the result of the match fixing, perhaps they were simply deceived (the result that was predicted was obtained for natural reasons) by a fraudster who invented all these stories about the syndicate.
I think there are too many coincidences for it not be real. Players and ex-players were certainly involved because some of them even appear in the video. At one meeting, the reporter wanted assurances that the players would do what the syndicate asks them too. And one professional player who sits at the table tells the reporter that's the whole point. We will fix the matches the way the scenarios have been laid out because we are all interested in the same thing, making money. 
Interesting information to think about.
Sports games have long been a business, and as you know the guys with big money like to control everything. So I am not at all surprised by match-fixing. Moreover, I believe that this kind of manipulation takes place in all countries.
Sports games have long been a business, and as you know the guys with big money like to control everything. So I am not at all surprised by match-fixing. Moreover, I believe that this kind of manipulation takes place in all countries.
This kind of cheating happens around the world since there's a big money involve their, this kind of doings makes the sports boring. I hope government will file a bill which give more heavy penalties to the person involve on this doings since if they let this happen again and again then then provably people will lost interest to watch them.
I was stunned when the syndicate members explained that they have the power to influence 60-70% of the international test matches. Cricket is a popular sports in many parts of the world with millions of fans attending and watching those matches. Imagine sitting there, having paid for an expensive ticket, only to realize that the players you cheer on are bribed to underperform?
The organization has no intentions to stop. One of the organizers said he doesn't want to do it once and leave. He wants to set up a huge network to be able to influence the majority of matches in many parts of the world.
Unfortunately this is the sad reality of many sports, the mafia can be extremely effective to get cooperation from athletes, after all if they do not cooperate they can always go against them or their family and most people will take the money even if they do not want, this thread should be a great eye opener, rigging games is thought to be something that happens occasionally but as we see here there is a great chance that this is way more common than what we think. The organization has no intentions to stop. One of the organizers said he doesn't want to do it once and leave. He wants to set up a huge network to be able to influence the majority of matches in many parts of the world.
Interesting information to think about.
Sports games have long been a business, and as you know the guys with big money like to control everything. So I am not at all surprised by match-fixing. Moreover, I believe that this kind of manipulation takes place in all countries.
Sports games have long been a business, and as you know the guys with big money like to control everything. So I am not at all surprised by match-fixing. Moreover, I believe that this kind of manipulation takes place in all countries.
This kind of cheating happens around the world since there's a big money involve their, this kind of doings makes the sports boring. I hope government will file a bill which give more heavy penalties to the person involve on this doings since if they let this happen again and again then then provably people will lost interest to watch them.
Interesting information to think about.
Sports games have long been a business, and as you know the guys with big money like to control everything. So I am not at all surprised by match-fixing. Moreover, I believe that this kind of manipulation takes place in all countries.
Sports games have long been a business, and as you know the guys with big money like to control everything. So I am not at all surprised by match-fixing. Moreover, I believe that this kind of manipulation takes place in all countries.
But for those who are a shareholder of clubs, sponsors of leagues, etc. that is, being a guy with really big money is unprofitable foul play since it diminishes interest in the sport if such facts are revealed. Control at this level is achieved in other ways - the rules of budgeting and other restrictions for the participants of the competition more or less equalize their chances and the audience gets an interesting (equal) rivalry. Of course, this applies to team competitions.
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