IPL spot fixing: Delhi Police to file chargesheet today

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 09:16

The Delhi Police is expected to file a chargesheet in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal on Tuesday naming underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, three Rajasthan Royals players and several others.

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.

Pakistani umpire Ghauri to appeal against ban

Last Updated: Sunday, April 14, 2013, 23:01

Pakistani international umpire Nadeem Ghauri vowed on Sunday to appeal against a ban imposed for spot-fixing after he was allegedly found willing to give favourable decisions in return for money.

Amir targeting 2015 return to international cricket

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 10:29

Pakistan`s banned pacer Mohammad Amir is hoping to be allowed back in international cricket in 2015.

Zulqarnain Haider threatens to name Pak players involved in spot-fixing

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 19:06

Pakistan’s discarded wicketkeeper, Zulqarnain Haider has once again threatened to make some revelations about the alleged involvement of a few Pakistani players in spot-fixing

Spot-fixing: And now 100,000 pounds fine for Kaneria

Last Updated: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 19:38

Danish Kaneria has also been fined 100,000 pounds for his role in spot-fixing by the ECB.

Disgraced Salman Butt released from jail

Last Updated: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 15:58

Just seven months into his three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for involvement in spot-fixing, disgraced former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt was today released under the British government`s early prisoner release scheme.

Franchises want BCCI to consider auction of domestic players

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 18:29

In the wake of suspension of five domestic players and allegations about players being played `black money`, the Indian Cricket Board may have a separate auction for the uncapped domestic players in the coming seasons of the cash-rich IPL.

Others involved in fixing, says agent

Last Updated: Thursday, November 3, 2011, 09:21

Mazhar Majeed told a British criminal court that a fourth unnamed Pakistan cricketer was involved with former captain Salman Butt in corrupting the sport.

Phone-hacking and Pak cricket fix: the missing link

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 16:49

Phone-hacking and Pakistan`s spot-fixing in cricket are two different rows, but many on Tuesday remember that `News of the World`, the UK tabloid of media baron Rupert Murdoch that broke the story through a sting operation, is no more.

Spot-fixing scandal biggest disappointment of tenure: Butt

Last Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 16:49

Pakistan Cricket Board`s outgoing Chairman Ejaz Butt says the spot-fixing scandal, which led to three of the country`s top players being banned, was the biggest disappointment of his three-year tenure.