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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3207394" data-attributes="member: 120286"> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/eek.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":eek:" title="eek    :eek:" data-shortname=":eek:" /> It is unbelievable... but is it true?In organized <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports" target="_blank">sports</a>, match fixing or game fixing occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage rather than gamblers being involved, the team is often said to have tanked the game instead of having thrown it. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustling" target="_blank">pool hustling</a>, tanking is known as dumping.Thrown games, when motivated by gambling, require contacts (and normally money transfers) between gamblers, players, team officials, and/or referees. These contacts and transfer can sometimes be found, and lead to prosecution, by law or by the sports league(s). In contrast, tanking is internal to the team and very hard to prove. Often, substitutions made by the coach designed to deliberately increase the team's chances of losing (frequently by having one or more key players sit out, often using minimal or phantom injuries as a public excuse for doing this), rather than ordering the players actually on the field to intentionally underperform, were cited as the main factor in cases where tanking has been alleged.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket" target="_blank">Cricket</a> has been scandalized by several gambling and match fixing allegations in recent years, culminating in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Cricket_World_Cup" target="_blank">World Cup</a> investigations of 2007. These highly publicised enquiries were prompted by the surprise defeat of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_national_cricket_team" target="_blank">Pakistan</a> in the Cup by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_cricket_team" target="_blank">Ireland</a> and the subsequent murder investigation into the sudden death, straight after the match, of Pakistan's head coach <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Woolmer" target="_blank">Bob Woolmer</a>. Cricket match-fixing and the fallout of the Woolmer case have since become the subject of crime/thriller literature in the novel 'Raffles and the Match-Fixing Syndicate' (2008) by Adam Corres.In 2000 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi" target="_blank">Delhi</a> police intercepted a conversation between a blacklisted bookie and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_cricket_team" target="_blank">South African</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket" target="_blank">cricket</a> captain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje" target="_blank">Hansie Cronje</a> in which they learnt that Cronje accepted money to throw matches. The South African government refused to allow any of its players to face the Indian investigation unit, which opened up a can of worms. A court of inquiry was set up and Cronje admitted to throwing matches. He was immediately banned from all cricket. He also named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Malik" target="_blank">Salim Malik</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_cricket_team" target="_blank">Pakistan</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Azharuddin" target="_blank">Mohammed Azharuddin</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay_Jadeja" target="_blank">Ajay Jadeja</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_cricket_team" target="_blank">India</a>). Jadeja was banned for 4 years. They too were banned from all cricket. As a kingpin, Cronje exposed the dark side of betting, however with his untimely death in 2002 most of his sources also have escaped law enforcement agencies. Two South African cricketers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschelle_Gibbs" target="_blank">Herschelle Gibbs</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Boje" target="_blank">Nicky Boje</a>, are also wanted by the Delhi police for their role in the match fixing saga. A few years before in 1998, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_cricket_team" target="_blank">Australian</a> players <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Waugh" target="_blank">Mark Waugh</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne" target="_blank">Shane Warne</a> were fined for revealing information about the 'weather' to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(bookmaker)" target="_blank">a bookmaker</a>.  Reed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_fixing" target="_blank">Complete article</a>.<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/sorry.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sorry:" title="Sorry    :sorry:" data-shortname=":sorry:" /></blockquote>

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