Topic: The Cricket Match-Fixing Scandal - page 4. (Read 582 times)

Their suspensions show you that the game of Cricket is not as fair as you thought it is. Even if all indicators point towards a segment of the game being fixed, it still has to be proven and that is not necessarily an easy thing to do. In theory, the whole game can be fair besides the segment when one batsman is out to play. Players can underperform even without being bribed. Huge bets placed on a particular batsman and run total is a good indication, but still not definite proof that there is match fixing involved.

I think I understood what you are trying to say. When the documentary talked about how cricket groundsmen get bribed for manipulating the pitch, it was said that the match fixing fee they receive for one match is equal to 8 years of wages they earn by doing their regular job. And that's the problem. They are paid too little, and hence the possibility of getting involved in illegal business ventures increases dramatically. 

The member of the gambling syndicate tells the reporter in the video that 3 players from the English side were bribed and will manipulate the score. 

The $60.000 was the money the reporter was supposed to pay to receive the tip about the fix, nothing else. I don't think it was mentioned in the video how much bribe money the players allegedly received. Also, the entire team wouldn't know about the fix. Only 3 players were allegedly involved. Therefore, the money isn't divided equally amongst all players. The way it works is they usually make a deal with a player. Let's say the deal is you will get $100.000 for batting badly, and that's it. The entire match is not fixed, only the segment when that particular player bats. It would be equal to bribing a football player who takes free kicks to always hit the wall when he shoots. But imagine you can bet on the outcome of the freekick. You aren't fixing the match, and your team might still win, you are just shooting like shit on purpose.   

No, of course not, they just followed the game and pretended they made a huge profit from it. The deal was the money would be given to an intermediary and released in their next meeting after the reporter (who pretended to be a businessman) received the tips and made the bets. The segment they received the tip for played out exactly as the syndicate member said it would. At the next meeting, the reporter said who he was, they brought out the cameras, and revealed the whole thing.

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.

Teach our future generations the value of integrity and not being shadowed over by corruption, we will slowly be able to destroy the mentality and the business of rigging sports. Also, if we put a more sharper fangs on laws that are prosecuting game fixing/rigging then we will reduce people trying to do it since they know how serious it is.

Sports bodies such as FIFA and FIH took great care to eradicate the curse of match fixing with their respective sports. But the ICC is not very successful in repeating the same with cricket. One reason may be the presence of businessmen and politicians with various cricket boards. These people don't care about the sport and just want to make as much money as possible. The ICC have banned players for life, for taking part in match fixing. But their treatment is much more mild, when powerful people are involved. Remember what happened when the CSK management was caught in 2015, along with the RR bosses. The team was allowed back in to the IPL after just two years. Why it is always life ban for the players and just two years suspension for the franchises?

Sat through the entire video and it was a treat to watch, I remember betting regularly on cricket matches few years back but never had an idea that it could be rigged through their own ways.

Just like what they said in the video, they do it because there's money to be made and some tournaments are less regulated than the others then at the same time sportsbooks are offering odds on those matches. Recently there's some investigation going on in the esports scene as well where one of the players got exposed due to some disagreements with his previous organization.

Thing is, they looked for those who match fixed cricket matches only to find something way bigger imo. Nothing new about match-fixing, but I think this is rather big for it to have been ignored at that point? I mean, if the broker claims to be able to influence that much amount of tournaments, then the legal team behind the tournament should have done something already, that is unless they're all in it together. Not really that updated on crickets, but was this even investigated properly? After all the article is pretty old.

Match fixing was always prevalent in cricket. The entry of franchise T20 leagues have worsened the situation. A few years back, two of the franchises were suspended, after it was found that their own owners were involved in match fixing. And back then, one of the franchise owners was the president of the BCCI (N Srinivasan). He quickly hushed up the matters and refused any further investigation. Unfortunately it is an example of what happens, when the cricket boards are under the control of politicians and businessmen, rather than former players.

I feel like this sort of thing is becoming more common over the years in professional sports. Before 20 years ago this sort of thing would have been unheard of. Shoeless Joe Jackson is still known 100 years later for pulling this sort of stunt. 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. It’s a serious problem that undermines sports as well as gamblers.

Actually I don't like cricket matches. But I found your title very interesting. I don't know what is the name of the official agency that manages the cricket league. But the administrators should have given very harsh penalties for the match fixers. Indeed, in any match I think there are bookies who bet, but let it happen naturally. There is no need for any arrangement, it will be more interesting. Does anyone know how the case goes? how about the punishment?

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.

After all this big scandal regarding fixed and rigged matches, I don't hear any news yet that someone from a "big organization" got jailed or penalized. It does, only a few I guess. Most likely at these cases, the participants such as player and staffs are the ones received a big penalty and violation.


It's a cooking game wherein there's a possibility that both parties are not aware there's an unusual thing happening. Far from rigged games wherein players are involved directly. One more example is the controversial NBA 2002 Western Conference Finals match between Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Lakers. I'm sure the Lakers' players won't be involved in a rigged game but there might be someone "much higher" who wants the Lakers to win at all cost.

Even worst was when I heard the news that Amir has been allowed to play again (because he was under age at the times of involving in match fixing). I respect and admire Amir as a player but match-fixing should have no place in the sport, especially at the international level.

There were some videos made viral about a small league where players were acting comical and throwing the game but at the international level, you just cannot do it, if you do and get caught you shouldn't be allowed to enter the sport again ever.

This is the first time i am hearing about pitch fixing with the help of groundsman  . Spot fixing is lucrative and big rollers are trying to take advantage of these loopholes but what i did not see is that 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. 

Any sport where people can bet will have chances of rigging.
I even wonder if UFC is rigged at times because some of the decisions given by the judges are hilariously funny and concerning.

I remember a fight recently concluded where one judge had the fight 30-26 for one fighter and the other judge had it something like 30-27 for the other. I know a 29-28 can happen but how can two judges be so different on the same fight that one scores it as 30-27 and the other scored it as 30-26 for the opponent.

So now here we are, recently it is Basketball that has been tackled about being Rigged and now it is One of the famous sports in the world are entering this badly manipulated  games?

no wonder that this is happening in all sports ?

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.
This one isnt already surprising and can happen from time to time without being knowing on what is actually under those curtains.

I have only read the article, maybe the video says something different - but the two matches that were supposedly confirmed as being fixed were "Sri Lanka versus India in July last year and Sri Lanka versus Australia in August 2016."

A third match, it is claimed in the article, was meant to fix a match between India v England at the Sri Lanka stadium - but that was not fully confirmed. I must have missed the allegation that it was the English side who would fix the match, as it does not seem to confirm which side would be cheating in this way.

It's always interesting reading about these sort of scandals and it is possible that I overlooked it, but you seem to be making a false allegation that the English team was involved. I have no doubt that the English players have the capacity to cheat, but reading that $60,000 was all it took set alarm bells off. Considering all the people that would need to be paid with that money, it doesn't seem to be worth anywhere near the risk for such a low amount from a professional cricketer perspective. Also, the sum of $60,000 being paid by the Al Jazeera reporter seems unusually high in order to prove a story as legitimate? Did the reporter or source of funds end up taking advantage of the fraudulent betting knowledge to make the money back?

Wow, some really excellent read and I want to add a few more things about how matches are rigged and could be rigged in my opinion.

There are countless fantasy sites and while some of them allow you to modify the team after the toss most of them will not allow you to make any changes to your picked players about 30 mins before the match. ( at toss we get to know the players playing today )

So basically some teams will drop some key players and include some new faces, this information is given to the bettors prior and they can pick those players who anyone would not even dream of picking.

Non-cricket followers can imagine as if you know LeBron James won't play tonight and you have some inside information. These things are happening countless times in small leagues and fantasy cricket is rigged as hell.

I think only football has had a fixing scandal. It turns out that this news opened my eyes if all matches were very likely to be arranged. Their network is so wide, many people are involved. I think gambling on the game is perfectly reasonable, but let it work its way. The owner of power is supposed to evaluate all match equipment. Maybe an oath and a salary more than enough to avoid this bit of cheating.

In my country there have been cases but in football. They set the score for the results of the match. After it was discovered that the perpetrators were punished, the players who became actors were not allowed to play in soccer for life.

International cricket involving the test nations is mostly free from match fixing now. It would have happened a decade ago, but not now. The ICC has strict monitoring mechanism in place and this prevents any sort of match fixing from happening in international matches. But I can't guarantee the same, with matches involving smaller teams such as UAE and Zimbabwe. In fact multiple members of the UAE national team were suspended recently, for their involvement in match fixing.