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In cricket, match fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.In particular, players have been approached by bookmakers and bribed to throw matches or aspects of matches (such as the toss), or provide other essential information.
The 2009 Hindi film, 99, starring Kunal Khemu, Boman Irani, Soha Ali Khan and Cyrus Broacha, is set in the year 1999, with the India-South Africa match fixing controversy as the backdrop. The 2008 Hindi film, Jannat , directed by Kunal Deshmukh and starring Emran Hashmi , Sonal Chauhan and Javed Sheikh is also based on match fixing.
Ajaysinhji Jadeja [1] (pronunciation ⓘ born 1 February 1971), known as Ajay Jadeja, is an Indian former professional cricketer. He was a regular member of the Indian cricket team in the One Day International (ODI) format between 1992 and 2000. He played fifteen Test matches and 196 ODIs for India. He also occasionally captained the India ...
He also named Saleem Malik , Mohammed Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja as fellow match fixers. Jadeja was banned for 4 years. Jadeja was banned for 4 years. Although Cronje was a kingpin of betting, following untimely death in 2002 most of his fixing partners escaped law enforcement agencies.
In the year 2000, Mohommad Azharuddin told CBI that he took money from bookies to fix a match, he also revealed that Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia were involved in fixing. [8] Ex- secretary of BCCI Jayawant Lele in his book alleged Mongia for fixing and playing intentionally slow, in his book 'I was there- Memories of a Cricket administrator'.
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.
The Indian selectors received criticism for the exclusion of Mohammad Azharuddin and the inclusion of Ajay Jadeja and Ajit Agarkar from the squad [10] [11] that was justified by Chandu Borde, the chairman of selectors, citing Match fixing allegations on Azharuddin & emphasizing on the fact of having chosen a squad of "young blood" and with ...
Justice Chandrachud completed his inquiry in October 1997 and submitted the report on an undisclosed date to BCCI. When the match fixing controversy resurfaced in 2000, BCCI released the Chandrachud Report to the media. The report concluded: There was no plausible reason why Manoj Prabhakar had to wait 3 to 6 years to report match-fixing ...