Possible match fixing in 3rd Ashes Test exposed

[Altum Volantes]

I’d be lyon if I said this wasn’t surprising. It’s in stark contrast to anything we’ve heard around this team in recent years. I just hope the bastard gets what cummins to them!

 

[IKnowtheDog]

Not everyone has an IPL contract.

IPL has nothing to do with it. If players aren't literally being paid that's how bookmakers get their claws in

 

[Wayne Dwop]

A report from The Sun...an English tabloid with as much credibility as 'No Idea' and released on the first day of a test match. I call BS.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Joban said he could get players to follow “scripts” — such as how many runs would be scored in a session, or an innings, when a wicket will fall and what a team would do if it won the toss.

For any of this to be true except when a wicket falls basically the entirety of both teams would have to be in on it, so I'm calling BS.

 

[BlueandGoldforever]

I have no doubt it is true. They have been on the investigation for four months. Illegal betting is rife in international sport and you would naive to think that a first-class cricketer or even an international cricketer wouldn't be tempted by cash in the realm of $50,000 to $200,000 for bowling a wide or getting caught out. Humans will always be tempted to cross the line.

The amount of well-known Hollywood actors making TV commercials just reinforces how greedy a society we have become.

I mean do any of the cricketers such as David Warner (who would probably earn around $3 million a year) need to do TV ads? No.

We live in a society where everyone wants more and it is not healthy at all.

 

[Richard Pryor]

I have no doubt it is true. They have been on the investigation for four months. Illegal betting is rife in international sport and you would naive to think that a first-class cricketer or even an international cricketer wouldn't be tempted by cash in the realm of $50,000 to $200,000 for bowling a wide or getting caught out. Humans will always be tempted to cross the line.

The amount of well-known Hollywood actors making TV commercials just reinforces how greedy a society we have become.

I mean do any of the cricketers such as David Warner (who would probably earn around $3 million a year) need to do TV ads? No.

We live in a society where everyone wants more and it is not healthy at all.

Shoot an entirely legal ad and risk getting sledged over it if it's crap, or spot-fix and risk losing your entire career and becoming a pariah.

Yep, I can't even tell the difference.

 

[frankrizzo]

If the bookies do have certain players on their payroll why wouldn't they just tell the people they were meeting which current players they control?

 

[wagstaff]

Apparently via the transcript the bookies name a former Oz player/admin but that name has been withheld for legal reasons. I guess once the investigations are done on that individual we'll find how valid the bookies' claims are.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

I’d be lyon if I said this wasn’t surprising. It’s in stark contrast to anything we’ve heard around this team in recent years. I just hope the bastard gets what cummins to them!

I guess you could say you're a bit of a... warner...

I'll see myself out.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

I just read the article. Cheers Dips for bringing this to my attention.

 

[roscreasl98]

Apparently via the transcript the bookies name a former Oz player/admin but that name has been withheld for legal reasons. I guess once the investigations are done on that individual we'll find how valid the bookies' claims are.

They've just revealed the fraud.

The whole English cricket team.
They've been charged with impersonating cricketers.

Serious stuff.....

 

[Altum Volantes]

I guess you could say you're a bit of a... warner...

I'll see myself out.

Don’t be a paine. It doesn’t take a wordsmith to come up with with this stuff.

 

[Alfonz]

Reads like a bunch of con artists trying to scam people into giving them money, by promising fixes that they really have no control over.

 

[eddiesmith]

Well when you see Starc bowl 3 good balls then follow up with 3 pies that all get dispatched to the boundary...

 

[spookism]

Storm in a tea cup...

 

[offtherails9]

I have no doubt it is true. They have been on the investigation for four months. Illegal betting is rife in international sport and you would naive to think that a first-class cricketer or even an international cricketer wouldn't be tempted by cash in the realm of $50,000 to $200,000 for bowling a wide or getting caught out. Humans will always be tempted to cross the line.

I guess.. but it's surprising they didn't go through with it and see if the fourth ball of the 9th over would in fact be a dot ball or not then making it an expose.

 

[Gough]

On the Press Box on the ABC they're cautiously calling bullshit on this one.

 

[damochandler]

I wouldn’t be just laughing it off. As they have had stings like this in the past that has come true

 

[Upgrayedd]

Does putting a guy in the top 6 with an average of 21 count as trying to throw a game?

I bet an Australian mid order collapse led by the marsh Brothers. Also for the sun to rise"

 

[Stopher]

The fix is in!

 

[Shiv]

Mitch 'giraffe' Marsh

 

[kickazz]

I recall discussions saying the best way to root this out was to tell the players there would be stings set up to try and entrap them. They'd never know who was behind the fix.
Could this be what's happened here? It's like it's all talk about proposals but no specific incidents of fixing

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Am I the only one that heard them say on SEN this morning that the silent man was a former world cup winning all rounder?

If no current players are involved, how can there be a fix?

 

[Demosthenes]

Storm in a tea cup...

This meme is literally older than a fair proportion of BigFooty's userbase.

 

[damochandler]

Am I the only one that heard them say on SEN this morning that the silent man was a former world cup winning all rounder?

If no current players are involved, how can there be a fix?

So they’re either saying it’s simon O’Donnell or Shane Watson or Shane lee