County Cricket spot fixing

[hornetrider]

Seems like we're at it as well - for shame. For the life of me I cannot understad why a 21 year old at the start of his career would do such a thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-1652700...

[jas xjr]

As I have said before , this is just the tip of the iceberg. So easy to do and hard to prove

[Victor McDade]

Millions of pounds are traded on these one day county matches on places like Betfair. And that's just in one country. The Asian and Middle Eastern market will be much larger.

Given that domestic players don't get paid all that much it must be quite easy to have one or two from each side on your books. Fix half a dozen matches a season and you could be several hundred thousand pounds better off. And that's just one fixing network. At the trial of the Pakistani fixers, the agent/fixer said fixers from different networks would outbid each other to have players 'on their books'.

Sad state of affairs and the ICC don't really care too much about cleaning it up.

[chimster]

Yep, it's worrying if it has reached this level in the County game. It can be tackled if we want to, I suspect if some of the sponsors thought the game was being tarnished, the powers that be would get their fat arses into gear pretty quickly. It should be sorted, no place for that behaviour in the game.

[anonymous-user]

Grubby.

He boasted about it years after he did it and his mate dobbed him in. The authorities are dealing with it not covering it up by making an example of him with possibly a custodial sentence. Bad as it is, it sounds like the best outcome really.

[Cheib]

hornetrider said:

Seems like we're at it as well - for shame. For the life of me I cannot understad why a 21 year old at the start of his career would do such a thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-1652700...

I am convinced England were involved in the match fixing back in the 90's......we just had so many batting collapses that came out of nowhere. We know the Indians, South African's, Australian's and Pakistani's were at it....I just can't believe England weren't at it too. Though obviously The Australian's only got caught being paid by a bookie for telling him what the weather was like..........

[jas xjr]

I was approached by someone in the late nineties . He said he had "access, " to the Indian cricket team. Not knowing anything about cricket or gambling I did not have anything to do with him. It has been happening for as long as that

[BlackLabel]

So Chris Cairns was a fixer? (Allegedly)



"Chris Cairns threatened team-mate Lou Vincent with bat for scoring too many runs, court hears"
"Former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns lied under oath that he never fixed cricket matches and once threatened a team-mate with a bat for scoring too many runs, a perjury trial has heard."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-08/cairns-threa...

"Chris Cairns offered Brendon McCullum huge sums of money to match-fix, court hears in trial "
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BLACK Caps captain Brendon McCullum will speak out against his hero and friend when he appears as a prosecution witness in Chris Cairns’s perjury trial in London - including the allegation that Cairns offered him between $70,000 and $180,000 per game to fix matches.

McCullum is one of a number of current and former professional cricketers who’ll give evidence at the trial, in which Cairns faces charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice in relation to a 2012 libel case against Indian Premier League founder Lalit Modi.

As the trial began in Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, prosecutor Sasha Wass QC said Cairns had unsuccessfully tried to get McCullum to help him fix matches in the Indian Cricket League in 2008.

“Mr Cairns told Mr McCullum everyone was doing spread betting and he didn’t want Mr McCullum to miss out,” Ms Wass told the court.

“Mr Cairns explained how he would be able to get Mr McCullum between $70,000 and $180,000 per game.” "

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/chris-cairns-o...