Match Fixing
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CLT20: Stringent approach to players security to avoid contact with bookies.
Cricket | Sep 20, 2013, 06:43 PM ISTRanchi: Forced by the allegations of match fixing in the sub-continent, Champion League organizers have taken stringent approach to players security to avoid contact with bookies.Organisers say the new security measures, which involved tracking player
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Players, accused in match fixing, living in fear
Cricket | Sep 20, 2013, 01:16 PM ISTMelbourne, Australia: An Australian court has heard that some of the English players allegedly involved in match fixing in a provincial football league fear for their safety from associates of a Malaysian man accused of
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Dravid says only law can deter fixing in cricket
Cricket | Aug 08, 2013, 09:27 AM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 8: Effective law enforcement is the key to controlling spot-fixing, former India captain Rahul Dravid said in an interview published Wednesday.“I don't think only education can work, (we have to) police it
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13 years after matchfixing, Delhi police leaves out Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje from chargesheet
Cricket | Jul 22, 2013, 10:26 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 22: Thirteen years after the match fixing scandal involving Hansie Cronje had rocked the cricket world, Delhi Police today filed a charge sheet in the case in which the names of his
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Fenerbahce gets Salzburg in Champs League prelims
Football | Jul 20, 2013, 06:57 AM ISTNyon, Switzerland, July 20: Fenerbahce will play Salzburg in the third qualifying round of the Champions League after getting temporarily reprieved from a ban for match-fixing.The Turkish league runner-up was excluded by UEFA, but reached
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After cricket Sreesanth to try his luck in southern cinema
Bollywood | Jul 12, 2013, 11:17 AM ISTKochi, July 11: Disgraced pacer S Sreesanth will be acting in a Malayalam film, the shooting of which would begin soon.Sreesanth, who was arrested by Delhi police on allegations of spot fixing and is now
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Two Sri Lankan umpires banned for match-fixing
Cricket | Jul 09, 2013, 08:36 PM ISTColombo, July 9: Sri Lankan umpires Sagara Gallage and Maurice de La Zilwa, who were caught in a TV sting willing to fix cricket matches for money, have been suspended for 10 and three years
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IPL betting: I'm innocent: Raj Kundra
Cricket | Jun 07, 2013, 11:51 PM ISTNew Delhi, June 7: Indian Premier League (IPL) team Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra has said that he is innocent, even as the franchise sought to distance itself from him and threatened to suspend him
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IPL betting: BCCI calls emergency meeting to discus Raj Kundra issue
Cricket | Jun 06, 2013, 10:26 PM ISTKolkata, June 6: An emergency working committee meeting of the Indian cricket board will be held June 10 to discuss the issue of Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra's allegedly involvement in betting in the Indian
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Match-fixing in Bangladesh Premier League: Ashraful suspended
Cricket | Jun 04, 2013, 04:35 PM ISTDhaka, June 4 : Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful was today suspended from all forms of cricket after he confessed his involvement in fixing matches, adding another sordid chapter to the spot-fixing saga which has
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Sports Ministry seeks extensive modification in draft law
Other Sports | May 28, 2013, 08:40 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 28: The Sports Ministry is not satisfied with the first draft of the proposed law to curb sport-fixing and other corrupt practices in sports and intends to carry out “extensive modification” to
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Defiant Srinivasan holds series of meetings
Cricket | May 26, 2013, 04:43 PM ISTKolkata, May 26: The top brass of the BCCI were huddled in a series of meetings during the day to discuss the raging IPL spot-fixing issue amid indications that the defiant N. Srinivasan will hold
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Spot, match fixing to be criminal offence under new law: Sibal
Cricket | May 20, 2013, 10:22 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 20: Spot fixing and match fixing would fall in the category of criminal offences under the new law being contemplated by the government, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said here today.Sibal has emphasised
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Cricket and the match fixing dilemma
Cricket | May 16, 2013, 02:56 PM ISTNew Delhi: Controversies have followed and controlled the global game of cricket since its advent. Many teams and players have been convicted and accused for match-fixing over the years. The involvement of bookmakers have surely
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List of cricketers banned for match fixing
Cricket | May 16, 2013, 04:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: Below is a list of Test, One Day International and or First-class cricketers who have been banned by the governing body for cricket, the International Cricket Council, or their respective national cricket boards
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Juventus coach questioned on match-fixing again
Football | Mar 12, 2013, 01:43 PM ISTRome, Mar 12: Juventus coach Antonio Conte was questioned again by the Italian football federation prosecutor about another match-fixing case Monday.Having already been suspended for four months at the start of this season for failing
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Aussies axe Watson, 3 others for disciplinary reasons
Cricket | Mar 11, 2013, 03:35 PM ISTMohali, Mar 11: In an unprecedented move, Australia today axed vice-captain Shane Watson and three other key players from the side for the third Test against India for failing to obey team management orders, giving
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Dhaka Gladiators media manager reveals Pak player Azhar's involvement in match-fixing
Cricket | Oct 10, 2012, 04:18 PM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 10: Dhaka Gladiators media manager Minhazuddin Khan revealed in a sting operation conducted by India TV that Pakistan cricket player Azhar Mehmood fixed the semi final of the SLPL by not playing
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IPL is the fountainhead of matchfixing, says former ICC umpire Darrell Hair
Cricket | Oct 09, 2012, 06:26 PM ISTSydney, Oct 9: Former ICC elite panel umpire Darrell Hair is not at all surprised by the allegations of fixing against match officials, and said such rumours started doing rounds since the birth of the
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India TV sting shows cricket is still vulnerable to betting scams, says Miller
Cricket | Oct 09, 2012, 06:24 PM ISTLondon, Oct 9 : Andrew Miller, editor of The Cricketer magazine, has said that the latest match-fixing expose by India TV are not as serious as those in August 2010 that led to the jailing