Every international team fixed matches in 1990s: Condon

[vamos_rafa]

LONDON: Former ICC Anti-Corruption Unit chief Paul Condon has made a sensational claim that every international team was involved in match-fixing at some stage in the 1990s. Condon, who was founding head of the ICC's ACSU, said match fixing was not just restricted to Indian sub-continent. "In the late 1990s, Test and World Cup matches were being routinely fixed. From the late Eighties certainly through to 1999-2000 there were a number of teams involved in fixing, and certainly more than the Indian sub-continent teams were involved," the 64-year-old Condon told Evening Standard. "Every international team, at some stage, had someone doing some funny stuff." Condon said the players of that era perhaps had full knowledge of what's happening around but chose to keep mum. "A whole generation of cricketers playing in the late 1990s must've known what was going on and did nothing. When they look back on their careers, a bit of shame must creep in. The last fixes of whole matches, or even series, were probably in 2001 before we'd really got the unit going." Condon also claimed that it all began in United Kingdom with County teams fixing friendly leagues but not for money. "It started with friendly fixes in the UK in the old Sunday leagues. Over a weekend you'd have a county side playing their county match and then a Sunday league match and there would be friendly fixes, not for money but for manipulating places in the leagues. "If you're Team A and have a higher position in the Sunday league and I'm captain of Team B and my team have no chance in the Sunday league, I might do a deal to ensure you got maximum points in your Sunday league match. You would reciprocate in the County Championships. These friendly fixes quickly became more sinister, probably in the Eighties." In 2000, ICC established Anti-Corruption Unit when the then South African captain Hansie Cornje was found involved in rigging of the games Condon also said that the menace of the spot-fixing might have started during the 2003 World Cup as there were instances which suggested it. "In one group match during a couple of overs two guys suddenly went from scoring runs in double figures to just ones and twos. For spot fixing, that's all you need. From 2003 spot fixing became the name of the game," he said.

[Yoda-esque]

Wonder who those two were???

[Sachinism]

So fixing happened all this time, many of these years he was heading ACSU and what exactly did he do about it?

[putrevus]

So fixing happened all this time' date=' many of these years he was heading ACSU and what exactly did he do about it?[/quote'] Spot on this guy is all bull crap , he was on ICC just for money.All he has ever done is talking big and no action.

[vamos_rafa]

"In one group match during a couple of overs two guys suddenly went from scoring runs in double figures to just ones and twos. For spot fixing, that's all you need. From 2003 spot fixing became the name of the game," he said.

This is a tall claim. Wonder which match is he referring to :hmm:

[bulbul]

So fixing happened all this time' date=' many of these years he was heading ACSU and what exactly did he do about it?[/quote'] May be his timing is delayed or he plan to write a book... But ACU started only from 2000 and in his interview he told it took some time for them..and after 2003 spot betting started ..may be it became difficult for fixing whole matches .. One thing is sure Fixing is rampant in every sports...as for as investigation is comncerned we all know how fast they proeed :winky:

[1983-2011]

Delhi Police to re-open 90s match fixing cases In what could come as a huge blow to cricketers from the 1990s, Delhi Police has decided to reopen the match-fixing case that it investigated between 1999 and 2000. This is based on the response to a Letter of Rogatory sent by Delhi Police to their British counterparts in 2000. The response provides a good deal of evidence against London based bookmaker Sanjeev Chawla. gm1v5BLmRmU&feature=player_embedded

[ganeshran]

Good. let the fixers rot in hell

[phaedrus]

great. i hope they do a proper job and catch all the fixers. hell or not, should rot in a jail for sure

[Magneto]

I just hope they don't put Azhar and Kapil behind bars. :nervous:

[Cricket Tragic]

[Prudent]

Kambli claims India-Sri Lanka WC semifinal may have been fixed Kambli's Contentions:

• Why India chose to field despite the unanimous decision that India would bat in the event of winning the toss on a batting pitch?
• Why batsmen were quickly falling on the other end inspite of the fact that he was holding out and telling them to go slow?
• He says he still can't fathom how six wickets fell within 22 runs. (That day's scoreboard)
• Wickets1-8 (Sidhu), 2-98 (Tendulkar), 3-99 (Azharuddin), 4-101 (Manjrekar), 5-110 (Srinath), 6-115 (Jadeja), 7-120 (Mongia), 8-120 (Kapoor).

Kambli's Account of Events: I will never forget the 1996 match because my career ended after this and I was dropped from the game. I was stunned by India's decision to field. I was standing on one side and on the other end my fellow batsman was telling me that we would chase the target. However, soon after they quickly got out one by one. I don't know what transpired. "Something was definitely amiss. However, I was not given a chance to speak and was dropped soon after. Our team manager at that time Ajit Wadekar was aware of everything. He had even written an article afterwards that Vinod Kambli had been made a scapegoat. "We had been playing well during the entire World Cup and even defeated the likes of West Indies and Pakistan to reach the semifinal. Howver, his sudden exit from the game is bound to raise suspicion. Our openers were all set to bat, however, at the nick of time, we learnt we had to field. I got a huge shock after learning this. "I cried because I thought I was robbed of a chance to do it for my country. The entire team hugged me. Most of us were crying, he recalled. It was not only Tendulkar and other cricketers' dream to win the Cup but mine too," he added. Sri Lanka won the first semi-final over India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in front of a crowd unofficially estimated at 110 000. Chasing Sri Lanka's innings of 251 for 8, India had slumped to 120 for 8 in the 35th over when sections of crowd began to throw fruit and plastic bottles onto the field. The players left the field for 20 minutes in an attempt to quieten the crowd. When the players returned for play, more bottles were thrown onto the field and fires were lit in the stand. Match referee Clive Lloyd awarded the match to Sri Lanka, the first default ever in Test or One Day International. At the fall of the 8th Indian wicket, sections of the crowd vented their disgust with the state of the match by setting fire to some areas of the stands and throwing fruit and waterbottles onto the field. The match was briefly stopped and when play was about to resume, the crowd again threw bottles at the deep fielders. The match referee stopped the game and the game was awarded to Sri Lanka by default. http://www.newsbullet.in/sports/cricket/21479-1996-wc-semifinal-between-india-sri-lanka-may-have-been-fixed-kambli

[bulbul]

My only memory of that match Kambli going to pavillion crying after the riots in stands... i watched match in a friends house some distance from my own , unable to control tears along the way...

[Precambrian]

a cup of heartbreak it was. everytime hopes were raised only to be dashed. The losses to SL and Australia really were heartbreaking

[Pagalpanti]

:facepalm: at every tom dick and harry claiming "this match" "that match" must've been fixed.

[BeautifulGame]

WTF? We won the toss in the semi final in that match? I always thought Sri Lanka won the toss and batted first. Cant say i dont agree with him :(( Surely there would have been an enquiry launched then why we fielded first on a typical raging turner in Eden Gardens?

[WC2011INDIA]

I was a kid back then and I do remember Kambli in tears. There is no doubt that he was a passionate player, but ruined his career because of his own mistakes I don't know the reason why he was dropped from ODI side after that WC. Maybe the police/CBI should check into that match. Afterall, Azharuddin brought a lot of shame to the game and India when he was found guilty of knowing bookies and fixing matches.

[ganeshran]

we used to collapse pretty regularly in those days especially after Sachin got out, so that didnt come as much of a surprise. The decision to field did seem strange. But why did Kambli wait so long to come out with this suspicion?

[saneindian]

Still remember reading a line in a magazine called cricket samrat after the semifinal "Vinod Kambli kyu foot foot kar roya? kyunki bookies ne usse kaha tumhe paise nahi milenge kyunki tum out nahi hue" . There were reports that the match was sabotaged by the bookies so that it could get abandoned and they do not suffer losses. Conspiracy theories then, could turn out to be true.

[SachDan]

My only memory of that match Kambli going to pavillion crying after the riots in stands... i watched match in a friends house some distance from my own , unable to control tears along the way...

You watched that match yet doesn't remember Sachin's innings? too bad :(