Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A Journey to the Heart of Cricket's Underworld

Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A Journey to the Heart of Cricket's Underworld

Language: English

Pages: 240

ISBN: 1408169959

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


'The most explosive book yet about corruption in cricket' Lawrence Booth, editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket.

For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.

Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...

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Ata-ur-Rehman (his life ban was lifted by the ICC in November 2006) followed, while Wasim Akram was fined and barred from captaining his country. Rehman was later allowed to play again from 2007. The purge was complete. Apparently for the second time in its history, cricket had cut out the cancer. Does it need to perform emergency surgery for a third time? This was the question I had on my mind when I stood outside that small bureau de change, the ghosts of the Green Man sending a chill down the.

Market would have made a shrewd move. Australia do not lose another wicket in their innings and they post a total of 216. They scored at a run rate of 8.85 for the last 20 overs and did not get any bigger than 1.57. As India’s chase begins, Vinay is right about the move on India’s price. The Betfair market cannot push out India quick enough as they lose wickets. When Sachin Tendulkar is first out for two with the score on nine, India drift from 2.74 to 3.70. When the second wicket is taken –.

ACSU have worked with the ECB and ACB and WICB so, yes, there was a lot of below-the-tip-of-the-iceberg stuff, where players would have been warned, reminded of their responsibilities. There was the [Mervyn] Westfield case [the Essex bowler convicted of spot-fixing]. The ACSU worked on that. Quite a lot of that went on.’ Condon has obvious frustrations that his unit has not received the credit it deserves. Before we met he told me he was going to stop talking about the issue in the media because.

Such a study could be considered subjective. For every player who has under-performed, no matter how alarmingly, there could be two or three who have overperformed. The purpose of picking out the above examples is not to point the finger at individual players, but to assess behaviour that at the time was considered uncommon and to decipher whether those accusations were fair. No doubt there would have been examples from India’s batting card that could have been picked on, for better or worse.

Change.’ Soon after Lorgat made this statement he is said to have addressed captains of the international teams due to take part in the World Cup and, when asked what was being done to stop corruption, it is understood he became rather flustered and admitted: ‘We don’t have enough power, we can’t stop it, it’s very difficult, we’ve hired one more person.’ Indeed, the World Cup appeared to be a fixer’s dream. The uncompetitive nature, and length of the tournament – 49 matches, only two fewer.

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