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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.
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 cases were heard by an independent disciplinary tribunal, and in June 2023 all ten players were successfully prosecuted on various match-fixing charges in 20 of the 24 matches. Seven of the ten players were all also found guilty of betting offences.
The 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case arose when the Delhi Police arrested three cricketers, Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, on the charges of alleged spot-fixing. The three represented the Rajasthan Royals in the 2013 Indian Premier League . [ 1 ]
On 14 October 2015, the Kathmandu Police arrested five Nepalese national team players suspected of match fixing in the world cup qualifiers 2011. The arrest was based on information coming from AFC and their collaboration with Sportradar Security Services. [76] In November 2015, these five Nepalese players appeared in court charged with match ...
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 ...
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]