Are India match fixing?

[Kong]

I'm genuinely curious.

How can a side go from number 1 in the world to being absolutely trounced in eight consecutive tests?

Not even in our recent slump did we roll over so meekly, so often.

Surely they haven't just suddenly forgotten how to play.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

They were only number 1 by default.

 

[Plugger35]

I doubt there is any match fixing involved, India just aren't a good side away from home on pitches that don't suit them.

 

[Jef Costello]

......No

 

[Gavin Excell]

No.

Its a combination of being woeful away from home and having hearts like peas

 

[Tulip]

This side has been beaten down to a pulp by a less talented (IMO) team. There is every chance something is going on here, this doesn't happen to world #1s

 

[BIG BONG THEORY]

personally i am very suspicious of every even remotely strange result nowadays, and tbh this does seem a little bit fishy

 

[glenferry23]

personally i am very suspicious of every even remotely strange result nowadays, and tbh this does seem a little bit fishy

what's your take on a team being bowled out for 47 then?

and in answer to the question, no. india just dont seem to care enough about test cricket after winning the world cup. and they've been quite rightly pummeled since by england and australia away from home

 

[spookism]

Not unless there was a shitload of coin put on them for a 0-4 whitewash. In all of the 13 days they have managed to keep the Test's going they haven't looked like a team in control enough to be able to lose on purpose.

 

[Kram]

Top thread.

 

[Drummer_19]

If they are they're doing a pretty bad job of hiding it.

 

[Max zero]

what's your take on a team being bowled out for 47 then?

and in answer to the question, no. india just dont seem to care enough about test cricket after winning the world cup. and they've been quite rightly pummeled since by england and australia away from home

I don't think people would be saying it if it were just one innings. We are talking 8 tests in a row.

 

[frankrizzo]

India didn't become number 1 by beating teams with great pace bowling away from home, a few years back what india did was hang tough away from home(in other words didn't lose much but didn't win much) and then dominated at home.

p.s. surely the big money to be made from match fixing is in highly unexpected results? if india lost at home to say NZ that would raise eyebrows as the odds would be substantially favoring anything other than a kiwi win.

Despite poor form heading into his series Australia were comfortably favorites wit the bookies.

 

[Santana]

They were only number 1 by default.

Most of them are.

 

[PykeDream]

It's called Duncan Fletcher

 

[Kim Hagdorn]

No they are just shit away from home, dumb thread.

 

[Starburns_]

Highest paid players in the world are after even more money? I doubt it, they're just being comprehensively outplayed.

 

[legend166]

Were we match fixing last summer?