What is Spot-fixing in cricket?
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What is Spot-fixing in cricket?

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 12:24
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What is Spot-fixing in cricket?What is spot-fixing?

Spot-fixing involves a player agreeing to perform to order by pre-arrangement. For example, a bowler might deliberately bowl consecutive wides in his second over or a batsman could make sure he does not reach double figures.

Twenty20 cricket is particularly susceptible because so much happens so quickly that individual performances can soon be forgotten or dismissed as inconsequential.

Tim May, the chief executive of the international players` union FICA, is one of several influential figures in the game who believes that the number of Twenty20 matches now being played could tempt players to take money from bookmakers in return for spot fixing.

Who benefits?

Betting on cricket matches televised in the Indian sub-continent is a hugely lucrative business. Fortunes can be made if a gambler knows in advance what a particular bowler or batsman is going to do. Bets can be placed on every delivery.

Only betting on horse racing at trackside is allowed in India but in practice around half of a market worth billions of dollars is estimated to be illegal betting, mostly on cricket.

What evidence is there on spot-fixing?

Rumours have abounded since the advent of the Indian Premier League (IPL) two years ago although nobody has ever been charged. During last year`s Ashes tour of England an Australian player reported that he had been approached by a suspected illegal bookmaker in the team`s London hotel.

Former England captain Michael Atherton said in a newspaper column earlier this year that one leading former international had told him "categorically" that spot-fixing was a regular occurrence.

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif said this year that he knew of match-fixing in the now defunct Indian Cricket League.


What was the match fixing scandal?

Three international captains Hansie Cronje (South Africa), Salim Malik (Pakistan) and Mohammed Azharuddin (India) were banned for life in 2000 for helping to influence the results of matches.


Match-fixing had become established in one-day cricket in the 1990s and suspicion centred, in particular, on the one-day tournaments staged at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

As a result of the scandal the International Cricket Council (ICC) founded its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) to monitor all international matches. The ACSU monitored the IPL tournament in India this year but not the second edition in South Africa last year because the Indian board thought the fee charged by the ICC was too high.

First Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 15:33


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ziyaul haq - gorakhpur
about match fixing its very fine knowledge.
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lalit - bhopal
it is very wosrt thing in cricket & it also ruin the cricket of the all over the world. cricketers r run for the money not for catching the bowl to hold his career in thier hands, it changes thier life and vanishing thier own career for just money
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Ravi Shankar Pandey - delhi
i don`t want to say anything.
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pawan - gzb
the knowledge is very useful.
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pawan - gzb
the knowledge is very useful.
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shakeer - bangalore
The guilties should be punished so in future these things of fixing and despairing the hope of motheland prevented.-shakeer-bangalore
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mahesh ramteke - nagpur
match fixer /whome those are involved in the fixing
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shakti gupta - jammu
In India the future of match fixers is very bright who knows in near future they become M.Ps.and may even become sports minister .So it is very difficult to uproot the evils of match fixing from india .
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shakti gupta - jammu
In India the future of match fixers is very
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raghuveer - jaipur
all theplayer who involved inspotfixing shouldbelifebanfromcricket
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