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The reason for fixing a match includes ensuring a certain team advances or gambling. Match fixing is seen as one of the biggest problems in organized sports and is considered as a major scandal. This article is a list of match fixing incidents and of matches that are widely suspected of having been fixed.
Despite plans to fix the results of three matches being abandoned in two cases, an independent tribunal found Chen guilty of fixing or conspiring to fix the results of three matches in total, in breach of Rules 2.1.2.1 and 2.2 of the WPBSA Members Rule and Regulations. Chen was sentenced to a ban of five years, reduced from seven and a half ...
Pakistan cricket spot-fixing scandal – in 2010, three Pakistan players—team captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir—were accused of involvement in a spot-fixing scheme in which they allegedly accepted large sums of money to influence specific events within a match, as opposed to an actual match result.
The issue of match fixing in tennis is an ongoing problem. First reported on by The Sunday Telegraph in 2003, [1] an organisation called the Tennis Integrity Unit was set up in 2008 following an investigation into the problem. [2] In 2011, Daniel Köllerer became the first player to receive a lifetime ban from the sport due to match fixing. [3]
Macarthur played out a 1-1 draw with Melbourne Victory in the first of those matches before beating Sydney FC 2-0 in the second. All three charged players were given yellow cards in the Dec. 9 game.
Match fixing (3 C, 25 P) S. Sportspeople involved in betting scandals (1 C, 152 P) ... 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case;
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Two more players could be involved in the Australian soccer match-fixing case that has already resulted in three Macarthur FC players being charged. Midfielder Kearyn Baccus appeared in court ...