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Spot-fixing and Woolmer`s death: How numbers can help detect corruption

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 14:54

With the kind of technology available, and astute use of mathematical models, many anomalies in the field of play can be readily flagged as suspicious. With the striking example of Bob Woolmer’s death, Arunabha Sengupta demonstrates the way corruption can be combated with analytics.

What is Spot-fixing?

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 10:46

Spot-fixing involves a player agreeing to perform to order by pre-arrangement. For example, a bowler might deliberately bowl consecutive wides in his second over or a batsman could make sure he does not reach double figures.