Betting fraud in cricket

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Under betting fraud in cricket is meant manipulating Cricket -Matches.

Match fixing

Under Match Fixing refers to an organized criminal and betting fraud. Players accept funds from third parties in order to lose a match on purpose. The result of the match is therefore known before the game starts. The initiated players drop simple catches or unnecessary run-outs are provoked.

Spot fixing

Another option is spot fixing . This describes manipulations of events that do not affect the outcome of the game. A typical example in cricket is when a certain ball is set for a no-ball before the match . Since you can bet money on every single ball of an overs with many betting providers, this form of betting fraud is possible and also very lucrative. A bowled no-ball is not noticed in long matches. Furthermore, the spot fixing is very difficult to prove, since often only one throw was manipulated.

Combat

In 2000 the International Cricket Council established the ICC's Anti Corruption Unit (ACU). This department has the task of checking cricketers and worldwide matches for corruption. The ICC has the opportunity to punish the player concerned if there is evidence. The player can be excluded from the official game operation for a certain period of time, be punished with heavy fines, but a lifelong game ban is also possible.

In addition to tracking down cheating players, the Anti Corruption Unit also has other tasks: It offers a training program against betting fraud to make players aware of this issue. Every international player and umpire must participate in this anti-corruption program.

Examples

Sharjah

In the 1980s and 90s, multi-nation tournaments were regularly held in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium there. In 2000 it became known that games there had been manipulated several times by local bookmakers and that players from the Pakistani national team in particular were suspected of having accepted money. As a result, India forbade its national team to continue playing games there in 2001, meaning that no international cricket took place there for several years.

Hansie Cronje

After the South African cricketer and Test - captain Hansie Cronje had asked individual players to show in games poor performance, he was banned for life 2000th

Tour of Pakistan in England 2010

During the tour of Pakistan in England in 2010 it became known that the Pakistani captain Salman Butt and his teammates Mazher Majeed , Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir had arranged no balls that had been agreed with bookmakers. The players involved were banned for several years and were sentenced to prison terms in court.

Indian Premier League

In the Indian Premier League 2013 , the players Sreesanth , Ajit Chandila , Ankeet Chavan and Amit Singh were convicted of the spot fixing. Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan were then banned from the Indian association for life. As a consequence, the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings franchises were excluded from the Indian Premier League for two years in 2015 because of their involvement in betting businesses .

Pakistan Super League

In the 2017 season , six players were accused of accepting money for the outcome of matches and of violating the Pakistan Cricket Board's anti-corruption code. Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif have each been suspended from international cricket for five years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Selvey: Spotting spot-fixing is harder than ever in Twenty20 era ( English ) Cricinfo. April 15, 2010. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ Simon Briggs: Return to Sharjah, where 'match fixing started' ( English ) Cricinfo. November 2, 2011. Accessed June 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Cronje banned for Life ( English ) Cricinfo. October 2, 2001. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cronje banned for Life ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  5. ^ Richard Sydenham: Butt gets 2 years 6 months in jail, Asif gets 1 year, Amir six months ( English ) Cricinfo. November 3, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ BCCI probe finds four players guilty of match-fixing ( English ) Cricinfo. September 13, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  7. ↑ Sreesanth gets life ban for IPL fixing ( English ) Cricinfo. September 13, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ CSK, RR owners suspended for two years ( English ) Cricinfo. July 14, 2015. Accessed June 23, 2016.
  9. ↑ Srinivasan ignored player's code of conduct violation - Mudgal report ( English ) Cricinfo. November 17, 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  10. ↑ Sharjeel Khan banned for five years by PCB ( English ) Cricinfo. August 30, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  11. ↑ Khalid Latif banned for five years for role in PSL spot-fixing scandal ( English ) Cricinfo. September 20, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2018.