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Cronje admitted pocketing about $100,000 from bookmakers in return for insider information on his team, promises to under-perform and approaches to teammates to do likewise. His fall shook the cricket world as probably no other event has. But the game's worst scandal did not begin and end with Cronje. Life bans have since been imposed on two other former national captains?Pakistan's Salim Malik and India's Mohammad Azharuddin?for similar offenses to Cronje's. And the International Cricket Council's new anti-corruption unit is investigating a veritable roll call of cricket luminaries. Within...
...Cricket will take a small step toward recovery on Feb. 12, when eight of the world's 10 Test captains gather in Melbourne for their annual powwow. The anti-corruption unit's head, Sir Paul Condon, a former chief of Scotland Yard, will ensure that the current skippers have something besides their gripes to chew on: two days before, also in Melbourne, Condon will deliver the first review of his team's probe into alleged improper dealings between the now notorious former Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta and some of the game's biggest names, including Brian Lara (West Indies), Mark...
When Australia's Waugh and Shane Warne were revealed as having accepted thousands of dollars each from a bookmaker while in Sri Lanka in 1994?an episode that was covered up for three years by the Australian Cricket Board?many observers scoffed at their defense of having been "naive." But Christopher Doig, chief executive of New Zealand Cricket, argues that even the more worldly players can be seduced by professional charmers. He cites the case of New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who was targeted by an Indian bookmaker in London in 1999: "Fleming is an exceptionally intelligent, capable...
Part of the solution to match-fixing is education. "Players often enter international cricket sheltered and sequestered from normal life," says New Zealand's Doig. "We should be giving them mechanisms to rec-ognize improper approaches and spell out to them the appropriate response in the event...
...world's bookies aren't about to disappear. Soon enough, new players will face ancient temptations. "If integrity is to return to the game, it will start with the captains," says Croft. In Melbourne, cricket's onfield generals will have the chance to atone for the sins of their fallen predecessors...