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TopicMatch fixing

Topic: Match fixing

‘Integrity of the sport’: BCCI’s push for match-fixing to constitute as ‘cheating’ under BNS, in SC

Bhadra Sinha -
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has submitted to the SC that match-fixing is ‘cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property’ under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Massive wides, slow batting, absurd teams. Bangladesh T20 league match-fixing charges explained

Navneet Oberoi -
This year, the Bangladesh Cricket Board's Anti-Corruption Unit is investigating eight matches for suspected fixing, acting on anonymous tips and media reports.

At BCCI, I held CoA Vinod Rai in high regard. Until this happened

Neeraj Kumar -
During all my interactions, Vinod Rai had been courteous, but with my experience of that morning, I had seen a different side of him.

Match-fixing back to haunt cricket after ex-teammates accuse Pakistan’s Wasim Akram again

Srijan Shukla -
Former Pakistan players Aaqib Javed & Aamer Sohail and ex-PCB chairman Khalid Mehmood have alleged that Wasim Akram was involved in match-fixing in the 1990s.

The Birth of T20 fixing — Lou Vincent, American dollars and sex

Tim Wigmore -
In Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde write about how the first great fixing scandal to be exposed allegedly began in a hotel room.

How bookie Sanjeev Chawla, kingpin of 2000 cricket match-fixing scandal, fell into police net

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Sanjeev Chawla extradited from the UK — four years after the procedure to bring him back to India for further probe in the match-fixing case began.

Bookies, punters, odds — the murky world of sports betting and the perks of legalising it

Revathi Krishnan -
Illegal betting in India, especially in cricket, has spawned ills such as spot-fixing & match-fixing. In this world cup season, ThePrint revisits calls to legalise it.

Hansie Cronje’s ties with Indian bookies and a Mercedes that ‘Dawood Ibrahim’ gifted Azhar

Chandramohan Puppala -
In June 2000, Hansie Cronje released a shocker: Mohammad Azharuddin had introduced him to a bookie who offered him money to throw a 1996 Test match.

Bet and better

SGIN -
In a free market, betting is a perfectly honourable thing. In fact, betting enriches sport much the same way stock markets build economies.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

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Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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