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match fixing, a dirty word in cricketing circles. It took a bit of a back seat in the time after the Warne/ Waugh incident in which they provided details about the conditions to an indian bookmaker until Hansie Cronje....
Hansie Cronje was the biggest news story to hit cricket in some time and the inquiry into that revealed wide spread deceit and treachery from not only south african cricketers. Akram, Azzarhuddin, Mushtaq Ahmed, Gibbs and Boje are all investigated and had charges pressed against them.
we now move into more recent years with the spot fixing "no-ball" incident with Amir and Asif in England receiving jail time.
And in the past 12 months, there have been reports of the Banlgadeshi and IPL being rife with match/ spot fixing...players in IPL teams were claiming to have been approached to fix small facets of the game
It seems the problem (using the broadest brush i have ever laid eyes on) seems to be confined to the Asian cricketing nations.
Is the problem to far gone to rectify? how long until cricket games results are questioned frequently? how can the issue be resolved?
Thoughts?
Hansie Cronje was the biggest news story to hit cricket in some time and the inquiry into that revealed wide spread deceit and treachery from not only south african cricketers. Akram, Azzarhuddin, Mushtaq Ahmed, Gibbs and Boje are all investigated and had charges pressed against them.
we now move into more recent years with the spot fixing "no-ball" incident with Amir and Asif in England receiving jail time.
And in the past 12 months, there have been reports of the Banlgadeshi and IPL being rife with match/ spot fixing...players in IPL teams were claiming to have been approached to fix small facets of the game
It seems the problem (using the broadest brush i have ever laid eyes on) seems to be confined to the Asian cricketing nations.
Is the problem to far gone to rectify? how long until cricket games results are questioned frequently? how can the issue be resolved?
Thoughts?

