match fixing

Sucker Called the Sports Fan

Akshay Sawai

Match-fixing is by no means endemic to cricket. If diehard followers of a game, whichever they follow, feel let down or enraged when such news breaks, they have only their own credulity to blame.

Tale of the Sting

Aniruddha Bahal

The author, who was the first journalist to expose match fixing in international cricket, pieces together the intricate details of how the sting on the Pakistani cricket team was crafted by a British tabloid. He also remembers his own undercover operations closer home.