Cricket betting can help bookies in making millions and millions of dollars. The match-fixing scandals come as no surprise looking at the size of the cricket betting industry.
Hansie Cronje
One of the biggest match-fixing scandals in cricket history occurred in 2000 when the Delhi Police disclosed that they had captured shady conversations between Sanjay Chawla and Hansie Cronje. Sanjay Chawla was a member of the Indian betting community.
Cronje during his career was a fan favorite, a popular and successful South African cricket player. Cronje faced a lifetime ban from cricket. He later passed away in 2002 in a plane crash.
IPL match-fixing scandal
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The Indian Premier League is no stranger to match-fixing. The biggest league has witnessed its share of scandals. The arguably biggest scandal of the IPL has to be the match-fixing scandal involving the Rajasthan Royals players in 2013.
Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, and S. Sreesanth, three cricket players with the Rajasthan Royals, were charged by the Delhi Police for their involvement in spot-fixing during the IPL. They were also charged with having ties to Chhota Shakeel and Dawood Ibrahim, two notorious underworld figures, by the police.
Sreesanth will make a return to the 16th season of the IPL as a commentator for the first time since his match-fixing scandal.
Mohammad Azharuddin
Mohammad Azharuddin was an outstanding batsman and a successful captain of the Indian Cricket Team in the 1990s. He was charged with match-fixing in 2000. Hansie Cronje, a South African player who was also accused of match-fixing blamed Azhar.
As Cronje accepted his wrongdoings, he told the investigators that Azhar had introduced him to bookies. He was consequently found guilty of manipulating three ODIs by the police. The BCCI and ICC then permanently banned him.
Shane Warne and Mark Waugh
Australian cricketers and World Cup champions Mark Waugh and Shane Warne supplied Indian bookmaker John the Bookmaker with weather and pitch data between 1994 and 1995 in exchange for cash. This was the largest match-fixing scandal of the 1990s as it included two of the biggest players of this decade.
Pakistan’s bowler’s no-balls
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In 2010, a sting operation accused fast bowlers of the Pakistan national cricket team. The fast bowlers had taken money from a bookmaker Mazhar Majeed. The bowlers had taken money to bowl no-balls at specific balls of the match.
Fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and their captain, Salman Butt was accused of match-fixing. Salman Butt was accused of orchestrating the whole scandal. The International Cricket Council banned the accused players for five to ten years.
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