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...discussed how much Cronje would make if he threw a match. Cronje subsequently admitted to a long series of transgressions and fingered two Indian players, Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma, as well as Malik. Following a series of investigations, all four were banned for life by their respective cricket boards...
...Cronje scandal prompted the International Cricket Council to set up an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to go after illegal bookmakers. But rumors of match fixing linger. Former Pakistani fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz believes that South Asia's bookmaking Mafia still manipulates results and that a bookie is probably behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian...
...Officials from cricket's anti-corruption unit are working with Jamaican police to investigate whether match fixing may have played a role in Woolmer's murder. Current and former players say it's almost impossible to throw an entire match because it needs to involve at least five or six players in an 11-man team. But that doesn't mean games can't be manipulated in other ways with the connivance of just a player or two. Many people bet not on the end result but on specific plays: how many runs an individual batsman will make...
...hours before he died. They are also examining Woolmer's laptop, which was left in the room by the killer or killers. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is the present-a gift to make the most of," went Woolmer's personal mantra. For one of cricket's most interesting characters there will be no more tomorrow. But for now, the mystery remains...
...change is already building. A non-scientific Times of India survey found that 87% of readers think Dravid should be removed as captain, while 92% feel one-time star batsman Sachin Tendulkar should be axed altogether. To the question "Is something fundamentally wrong with the way BCCI runs cricket in India?" 96% of respondents said yes. Eight out of ten people also feel cricket gets "too much importance in India...