You would have thought that by now players would have thought it wise to maintain safe distance from anyone involved in gambling on cricket. It is unbelievable that players, fortunate enough to be employed in the Indian T20 League, would risk, at the very least, doing serious injury to their careers and the league brand by engaging in acts they know are illegal. Why would they ignore the many warnings they regularly receive, and why would they not have seen the punishment dished out to the likes of Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt and Marlon Samuels as lessons to be learnt? Last year,

'I can resist anything except temptation.' That has been one of Oscar Wilde's more enduring quotes, a quote that reflects the frangibility of the human mind. As viewers, we are a forgiving people, we Indian cricket viewers. For only we can love a tainted captain and usher him into the corridors of administrative offices, only we can forgive our tainted poster boys and let them exhort us about the nuances of cricket in pre-match shows. Our love for drama always vanquishes our abhorrence for nonsense. We are intolerant to Sachin's dipping form, but we are tolerant towards scandals. We share Face

Stung by the sensational spot-fixing scandal, the BCCI has called an Emergent Working Committee meeting on Sunday to discuss the "fallout" of the controversy that has tarnished the credibility of the cash-rich league. "The President, BCCI, has convened an Emergent Working Committee Meeting, at 11:00 am on Sunday, May 19 2013, at the Park Sheraton, Chennai," the BCCI statement said. "The Working Committee will discuss, among other things, the fallout of the spot-fixing controversy in the ongoing Indian T20 League, in which three players have been arrested by the Delhi Police," it added. A speci

Amit Singh, one among the 14 people arrested by the Delhi police for spot-fixing, is a quick bowler from Gujarat who also played for Rajasthan in the Indian T20 League. The police have claimed that Amit is a talent-spotter for the bookies and also plays the role of a middle-man. Singh, who had played several matches in the 2012 edition of the Indian T20 League, allegedly used his access with the Rajasthan team to approach the players for spot-fixing. According to police sources, he got in touch with his former team-mates on behalf of a bookie named Chandresh, who is also one among the arrested

The England v New Zealand test series begins this week and England will be desperate to improve on their recent meetings with New Zealand in order to back up the bookmakers' opinions that England are one of the best cricket betting tips to win this year's Ashes series. Tips have been pouring into the OLBG.com Tipping Competition over the past week or so for the test series against New Zealand and it seems there is overwhelming support for England to do the business over the tests with 87.5% of OLBG members backing England to emerge victorious at odds of 1/3. There are no tips at all for a New

The game has been shamed no end. The Indian T20 League's core constituency, the millions of passionate fans, are disgusted. May 16, 2013 will certainly go down in history as the darkest day in Indian cricket since the turn of the millennium when this menace was first brought to public eye in the form of Hansiegate. While the Delhi Police deserve a pat on their back for a job well done, much work is still left undone in doing away with this disease that is once again threatening to corrode the very edifice of our great game. As a result of this expose every action of cricketers in future games

Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait has strongly denied any link to the arrest of three Indian teammates allegedly involved in spot-fixing during an Indian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament. Test player Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and fellow bowlers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were all arrested Thursday, Indian police said, with 11 bookmakers also detained in connection with the inquiry. "Not only were they without foundation, they highlight the danger of a medium that deals with innuendo rather than fact, the result of which has brought my name into question," he added. "At no stage in my c

In April 2013, a secret information was received by Special Cell, Lodhi Colony, Delhi that some members of the Mumbai underworld are involved in match fixing in the ongoing T20 Cricket League matches with the active participation of some unidentified conduits / bookies/ players some of who are based in Delhi ACR. The suspects were kept under watch, during which it was revealed that match fixers and bookies from Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab etc and some players participating in T20-League were conspiring to indulge in spot fixing. Accordingly,case FIR No. 2012013 dated 0 9.05.2013 Ills 4

Arrested Indian pacer S Sreesanth along with two other cricketers of the Rajasthan franchise and a large number of bookies, were today (May 16) sent to police custody for five days by a court for being quizzed in connection with the Indian T20 League spot-fixing scandal case. Delhi police told the court that more persons are involved and fresh arrests are expected. The probe suggested that bookies had bet on some other players too, it said. On a day of dramatic developments, Sreesanth and his teammates Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, who were arrested in Mumbai earlier in the day, were brough

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today made the following statement after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspended its three cricketers on the charges of spot-fixing. ICC Chief Executive, Mr David Richardson, said: "The ICC will provide full support to the BCCI and Delhi Police in this investigation. The BCCI's decision to suspend its three cricketers on corruption charges is a clear indicator of the ICC and its Members' zero-tolerance approach. "The ICC and its Members have collectively taken measures to tighten vigilance, strengthen our anti-corruption codes and incr