The Cricket Match-Fixing Scandal

[Zilon]

An investigator went undercover pretending to be a businessman looking for insider information about fixed cricket matches at the highest level. The Al Jazeera reporter met a member of an underground match-fixing syndicate in a hotel in India. The entire meeting was videotaped with hidden cameras. The individual is a member of D-Company, a crime organization involved in drug trafficking, illegal sale of weapons, racketeering, human trafficking, and illegal gambling and match-fixing. 
 
Al Jazeera discovered that the crime syndicate collaborates with many players from various cricket national teams. The gang makes bets that the players on their payroll will underperform in specific game segments known as overs. It’s possible to bet on the total number of runs in those overs. The players get bribed to bat badly so that the criminal organization can profit from making bets that the total number of runs will be below the score offered by the bookies.
 

Different activities go only regularly I various sporting activities. so many sports industry now gamble off their games with a mind of making more returns placing more preference to the gambling other than the game itself. If the investigator had gone in his real identity I believe a proper cover-up would have been done to his out their pit holes . I personally haven't really done much research on most of this happenings around gambling in general but as an eye opener this is to me i think paying kin attention to how various sports industry handle their games and the rate at which the carry out their activities would be of great concern to me now and not just getting entertained and gambling away my hard currency not knowing the games has been Manipulated

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[Vaskiy]

During the previous IPL league crores and crores of rupees were seized by the police department in connection to gambling. They tried the best to find, is there is any connection with the cricket players. No connection were found, because these days cricket players are not into these activities after several incidents that have ended players entire cricketing career.

[bryant.coleman]

During the previous IPL league crores and crores of rupees were seized by the police department in connection to gambling. They tried the best to find, is there is any connection with the cricket players. No connection were found, because these days cricket players are not into these activities after several incidents that have ended players entire cricketing career.

Gambling is illegal in India and that is the reason why these raids happen. And most of the time, it is the small fish who gets caught. Organized match fixing is controlled by the Dawood gang and other organized mafias and the Indian law enforcement can't act against them (partly because they are mostly based in UAE and some of the other countries, and also due to some of the Indian politicians supporting this gang). If someone gets caught, that is purely because they have refused to pay bribes to the cops and the policemen. If the government legalize sports gambling and make it regulated (similar to the western nations), then this criminal involvement will be reduced.

[Silberman]

It is incredibly common to the point it makes no sense to make any kind of bets on small events as you are at the mercy of those that want to rig the sport, I like boxing and I even go and watch new fighters, or at least I did before the pandemic came, and at least once every night there was a moment in which I said this fight is rigged, I could clearly see one of the fighters not giving it all or the judges giving the fight to someone that did not deserve it and that is extremely disappointing for those that actually love the sport since it destroys the incentive to keep watching it.

How common are such incidents in the sport of boxing? Such fixing may occur in lower tier fights. But there is zero chance that the top fights are being fixed. That said, the scoring has been a contentious issue for sometime in boxing. I have seen a number of instances when the win was awarded to the boxer who performed poorly.

A good example is the (first) fight between Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin. Adalaide Byrd had a shocking scorecard of 118-110 for Alvarez (meaning that he won 10 out of the 12 rounds) when the TV broadcasters and neutral observers claimed that Golovkin indeed won 8 to 10 rounds. And the biggest joke is that Adalaide Byrd continues to be a judge. But I don't have any reason to believe that Byrd indulged in fixing here. The biased scorecard possibily resulted from the personal bias towards Álvarez, rather than due to any monetary considerations.

Yes, I was talking about low tier fights and at least to me it seems this happens quite often but like always circumstances change, it could be very common where I live but not as common on many other different countries, but it is undeniable that it should be way harder when it comes to professional fights and yet it probably happens from time to time, I remember the fight you are talking about, and I remember scoring that fight 113-115 for GGG, I did not mind the judge giving 114-114 as the fight was close and it is within the margin of error, but the judge that scored the fight 118-110 saw a different fight than the rest of the world.

[Sithara007]

Yes, I was talking about low tier fights and at least to me it seems this happens quite often but like always circumstances change, it could be very common where I live but not as common on many other different countries, but it is undeniable that it should be way harder when it comes to professional fights and yet it probably happens from time to time, I remember the fight you are talking about, and I remember scoring that fight 113-115 for GGG, I did not mind the judge giving 114-114 as the fight was close and it is within the margin of error, but the judge that scored the fight 118-110 saw a different fight than the rest of the world.

When something like this happens, the basic decency is to drop the judge from the future matches. But the judge mentioned here (Adalaide Byrd) continues to be present in the jury for high profile matches.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/4753638/controversial-golovkin-vs-canelo-judge-adalaide-byrd-returns/

This sense of immunity further exacerbate the problem. The judges know that they can take bribes and dish out a biased scorecard as per their liking, and yet nothing will happen to them. Each of these matches witness a betting turnover of billions of USD. In the long term, it tarnishes the reputation of the sport.

[Obito]

During the previous IPL league crores and crores of rupees were seized by the police department in connection to gambling. They tried the best to find, is there is any connection with the cricket players. No connection were found, because these days cricket players are not into these activities after several incidents that have ended players entire cricketing career.

You wouldn't mind if I ask you but what is crores, I understand that it is the amount but how is the comma sometimes put in an unconventional way? Considering the amount of money involved in match fixing, I don't think that we are going to see people involved in the fixing being sloppy about their work that may connect them to someone, pretty sure that they got much more craftier because of the past scandals.