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...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 Waugh (Australia), Alec Stewart (England), Martin Crowe (New Zealand) and Arjuna Ranatunga (Sri Lanka...
...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 man, but it still took him two or three...
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...
...Cameron was initially told she had no legal case to answer, and the death was ruled a suicide. But pressure from her husband's New Zealand relatives dramatically altered events, and she was arrested last May. The inquiry into the death of Cliff, a 42-year-old bush pilot, is now laden with African bureaucratic inefficiency, post-colonial sensitivities and murky suspicions...
...Most neutral observers believe the case is simply bogged down in the Tanzanian legal system and that New Zealand is only representing a deceased citizen and looking out for the interests of his family, who find it difficult to accept that he would take his own life. Kerstin's relatives, however, are frustrated by what they see as "bureaucratic anarchy." She is jailed, they feel, because of undue pressure from New Zealand politicians, including former Finance Minister Bill Birch-who represented the Camerons' district of Port Waikato, south of Auckland, in Parliament-and former Foreign Minister Don McKinnon...