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What is spot fixing?
Spot-fixing refers to illegal activity in a sport where a specific part of a game is fixed. Examples include something as minor as timing a no ball or wide delivery in cricket or timing the first throw-in or corner in [association football]. Spot-fixing attempts to defraud bookmakers illegally by means of a player agreeing to perform to order by pre-arrangement.[1] As such spot-fixing differs from match fixing, where a whole match is fixed, or point shaving, a specific type of match fixing in which corrupt players (or officials) attempt to limit the margin of victory of the favoured team. Spot-fixing is more difficult to detect than match fixing or point shaving. Spot-fixing is most associated with the
betting markets of the Indian subcontinent where bets can be placed on individual deliveries in a cricket match.[2] The advent of Twenty20 cricket is said to have made spot-fixing more difficult to detect[3] as has the growth of Internet gambling and spread betting.
Twenty20 cricket is particularly susceptible because so much happens so quickly that individual performances can soon be forgotten or dismissed as inconsequential.
Tim May, the chief executive of the international players` union FICA, is one of several influential figures in the game who believes that the number of Twenty20 matches now being played could tempt players to take money from bookmakers in return for spot fixing.
Who benefits?
Betting on cricket matches televised in the Indian sub-continent is a hugely lucrative business. Fortunes can be made if a gambler knows in advance what a particular bowler or batsman is going to do. Bets can be placed on every delivery.
Only betting on horse racing at trackside is allowed in India but in practice around half of a market worth billions of dollars is estimated to be illegal betting, mostly on cricket.
| Kings XI Punjab 145/6 (20.0 ov) |
| Rajasthan Royals 147/2 (19.0 ov) |
| Rajasthan Royals beat Kings XI Punjab by 8 wickets |
What is spot fixing?
Spot-fixing refers to illegal activity in a sport where a specific part of a game is fixed. Examples include something as minor as timing a no ball or wide delivery in cricket or timing the first throw-in or corner in [association football]. Spot-fixing attempts to defraud bookmakers illegally by means of a player agreeing to perform to order by pre-arrangement.[1] As such spot-fixing differs from match fixing, where a whole match is fixed, or point shaving, a specific type of match fixing in which corrupt players (or officials) attempt to limit the margin of victory of the favoured team. Spot-fixing is more difficult to detect than match fixing or point shaving. Spot-fixing is most associated with the
betting markets of the Indian subcontinent where bets can be placed on individual deliveries in a cricket match.[2] The advent of Twenty20 cricket is said to have made spot-fixing more difficult to detect[3] as has the growth of Internet gambling and spread betting.
Twenty20 cricket is particularly susceptible because so much happens so quickly that individual performances can soon be forgotten or dismissed as inconsequential.
Tim May, the chief executive of the international players` union FICA, is one of several influential figures in the game who believes that the number of Twenty20 matches now being played could tempt players to take money from bookmakers in return for spot fixing.
Who benefits?
Betting on cricket matches televised in the Indian sub-continent is a hugely lucrative business. Fortunes can be made if a gambler knows in advance what a particular bowler or batsman is going to do. Bets can be placed on every delivery.
Only betting on horse racing at trackside is allowed in India but in practice around half of a market worth billions of dollars is estimated to be illegal betting, mostly on cricket.
The former India Test bowler
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other players have been arrested by
Delhi police on suspicion of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League,
sports officials said on Thursday.
India's cricket board (BCCI) immediately suspended Sreesanth and his Rajasthan Royals team-mates Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and promised that stricter punishments would await if they are found guilty.
"All information required to bring the persons involved to book will be collected and strictest action will be taken, if found guilty," the BCCI secretary, Sanjay Jagdale, said in a statement.
"The BCCI has zero tolerance to corruption. We will offer all co-operation to the Delhi police and all other authorities in their investigations in this matter."
Spot-fixing is the manipulation of individual incidents within a match which may not affect the outcome of the contest, most famously exposed in a London trial and jailing of three Pakistani cricketers in 2011.
Paceman Sreesanth, 30, has played 27 Tests and 53 one-day internationals but injuries and disciplinary issues have kept him out of the India side since late 2011.
Delhi's police commissioner Neeraj Kumar alleged that the three Indian bowlers took money to concede a pre-determined number of runs in three different IPL matches.
For 4m Indian rupees (£48,000) Sreesanth agreed to concede 13 or more runs in his second over of a May 9 match at Mohali, Kumar alleged. Sreesanth tucked a towel in his waistband to signal to a bookie, giving him enough time to "indulge in heavy betting", the police chief said.
"Sreesanth bowled the first over without the towel. In the second over, he put a towel in his trousers and then, in order to give bookies time to indulge in betting, he did some warming up, some stretching exercises, and then went on to give 13 runs," Kumar said.
"There are overseas connections and we've proof that the underworld is involved," continued Kumar, adding "the mastermind is sitting abroad" but declining to reveal details.
Last year, the BCCI banned one uncapped cricketer for life and handed out lesser punishments to four others following allegations of corruption in domestic cricket.
"The BCCI engages the services of the anti-corruption wing of the ICC to educate and monitor players and support staff in prevention of corruption of any form in the game," Jagdale said. "It is wholly unfortunate that despite such education, best playing conditions and terms of engagement offered, some players seem to be indulging in such activity."
Legal gambling in India is confined to horse-racing, while casinos are allowed only in some states. In such an atmosphere, illegal syndicates continue to thrive and Indian media estimates the amount bet on 2009 IPL Twenty20 competition at $427m (£280m).
The Pakistan players Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed in Britain for their role in a spot-fixing scandal relating to a Test match against England at Lord's in August 2010. The International Cricket Council subsequently banned the three players for a minimum of five years.
India's cricket board (BCCI) immediately suspended Sreesanth and his Rajasthan Royals team-mates Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and promised that stricter punishments would await if they are found guilty.
"All information required to bring the persons involved to book will be collected and strictest action will be taken, if found guilty," the BCCI secretary, Sanjay Jagdale, said in a statement.
"The BCCI has zero tolerance to corruption. We will offer all co-operation to the Delhi police and all other authorities in their investigations in this matter."
Spot-fixing is the manipulation of individual incidents within a match which may not affect the outcome of the contest, most famously exposed in a London trial and jailing of three Pakistani cricketers in 2011.
Paceman Sreesanth, 30, has played 27 Tests and 53 one-day internationals but injuries and disciplinary issues have kept him out of the India side since late 2011.
Delhi's police commissioner Neeraj Kumar alleged that the three Indian bowlers took money to concede a pre-determined number of runs in three different IPL matches.
For 4m Indian rupees (£48,000) Sreesanth agreed to concede 13 or more runs in his second over of a May 9 match at Mohali, Kumar alleged. Sreesanth tucked a towel in his waistband to signal to a bookie, giving him enough time to "indulge in heavy betting", the police chief said.
"Sreesanth bowled the first over without the towel. In the second over, he put a towel in his trousers and then, in order to give bookies time to indulge in betting, he did some warming up, some stretching exercises, and then went on to give 13 runs," Kumar said.
"There are overseas connections and we've proof that the underworld is involved," continued Kumar, adding "the mastermind is sitting abroad" but declining to reveal details.
Last year, the BCCI banned one uncapped cricketer for life and handed out lesser punishments to four others following allegations of corruption in domestic cricket.
"The BCCI engages the services of the anti-corruption wing of the ICC to educate and monitor players and support staff in prevention of corruption of any form in the game," Jagdale said. "It is wholly unfortunate that despite such education, best playing conditions and terms of engagement offered, some players seem to be indulging in such activity."
Legal gambling in India is confined to horse-racing, while casinos are allowed only in some states. In such an atmosphere, illegal syndicates continue to thrive and Indian media estimates the amount bet on 2009 IPL Twenty20 competition at $427m (£280m).
The Pakistan players Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed in Britain for their role in a spot-fixing scandal relating to a Test match against England at Lord's in August 2010. The International Cricket Council subsequently banned the three players for a minimum of five years.
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