Thursday, May 30, 2013

Bitter Grapes - II!


“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed” -  Bhagavad Gita

Last week I wrote about the people accused of cheating and destroying the sports for their personal greed. My last blog was mainly on Football. There is no doubt that football a sport that is more close to my heart but as an Indian once I was madly attached with the cricket. However, turn of events over the years the madness died down and main culprit is a demon name BCCI who is killing it. Betting and fixing are the hot topics in the cricket for recent past and mainly during IPL. Betting is illegal in our country and I don’t know how it will help even it is legal. Betting and fixing more and more coming into the games since shorter form came to the picture.  I feel “the Fixer” of any games should be treated as any petty criminal. These are the few incident and people who involved in the betting or fixing while playing the game.

Pakistan


Saleem Malik
Banned in 2000 for offering bribes. First Cricketer To Get Jailed.
Ata-ur-Rehman
Banned in 2000 for dealings with bookmakers
Mohammad Asif
Bowling planned no-balls against England in August 2010. In November 2011 he was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Court in England, for conspiracy for cheating.
Salman Butt
Bowling of no-balls against England in August 2010. In November 2011 he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison by Court in England, for conspiracy for cheating.
Mohammad Amir
Bowling planned no-balls against England in August 2010. In November 2011 he was sentenced to six months in a young offenders institution by Court in England, for conspiracy for cheating.

India

Mohammad Azharuddin
Declared guilty as per the BCCI. He rejects this and has taken the matter to court where it is currently sub-judice.
Manoj Prabhakar
In 2000 he tried to implicate Kapil Dev and others but it backfired as he was found guilty himself
Ajay Jadeja
Alleged to have associated with bookmakers

South Africa

Hansie Cronje
Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers. For Forecasting matches
Herschelle Gibbs
Initially agreed to under perform in an ODI game at Nagpur, but reneged on the deal and scored 74 off just 53 balls
Henry Williams
Initially agreed to under perform in an ODI game at Nagpur by conceding more than 50 runs off of 10 overs, however got injured after bowling 11 legitimate deliveries and 6 wides, conceding 11 runs.

Kenya

Maurice Odumbe
Receiving money from bookmakers

West Indies

Marlon Samuels
Passing on team information to an alleged bookmaker


Indian Premier League

2010

Five uncapped Indian players Mohnish Mishra, Shalabh Srivastava, T P Sudhindra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali was  suspened from IPL  in the wake of a television sting operation which claimed to have exposed corruption in the cash-rich IPL.

2013

Current version of IPL was most controversial. Cricketers, bookies, an IPL team owner,  a small time actor and an umpire linked to the fixing scandal. Three crickerts form  Rajasthan Royals team, Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, was arrested on the charges of spot-fixing. A numbers of bookies too arrested from different cities and it followed by the arrest of a small time actor Vindoo Dara Singh and Gurunath  CEO of CSK team. Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf became the another casualty of this sordid saga.

!!!Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.!!!

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