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What are the sequence of events in the colourful and recent history of activities that has resulted in match-fixing? How are the players undermining the entire essence of cricket in an ever increasing frequency of scandals?

This article lists out the timeline of match fixing, spot fixing and the related allegations that has tainted cricket.

 

LATEST UPDATES

FEB 2019

Former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya was banned for two years after admitting to violating anti-corruption code as part of ICC's widespread probe into match fixing in Sri Lankan cricket.

After being charged in Oct 2018, Jayasuriya immediately declared his innocence. Jayasuriya finally admitted to "concealing, tampering with or destroying evidence".

Oct 2018

As part of its Munawar Tapes Investigation, Al-Jazeera found evidence in 26 spot fixing scams in 15 international matches.

The matches involving England include the 2011 Lord’s Test against India and all three Tests of the 2012 series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates. In limited-overs cricket there are games against Bangladesh, South Africa and the Netherlands during the 2011 World Cup, as well as versus Afghanistan in the 2012 World T20.

It is the second time Australia has been identified in Al Jazeera’s Munawar Tapes investigation into cricket match fixing. The matches include the 2011 Test match between Australia and South Africa in Cape Town and the 2011 2nd Test between Australia and New Zealand in Hobart.

Oct 2018

Sri Lankan legend Sanath Jayasuriya was charged by the International Cricket Council with two breaches of its anti-corruption code.

The charges against Jayasuriya relate to his role as Sri Lanka’s chairman of selectors when the Sri Lankans had surprisingly lost a one-day series at home to Zimbabwe.

May 2018

An explosive Al Jazeera sting has uncovered widespread match fixing in cricket and questions the validity of 3 matches: India vs Sri Lanka (Galle, July 26-29, 2017), India vs Australia (Ranchi, March 16-20, 2017) and India vs England (Chennai, December 16-20, 2016). Players from Australia, England and Sri Lanka are implicated for taking money from criminal elements to spot fix matches.

Oct 2017

SL Cricket Chief Thilanga Sumathipala, who hails from a family of influential bookies, has been attacked by the SL media and critics on allegations of widespread corruption under his watch. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has setup a probe into spot fixing in SL cricket recently after former a former selector aired wrong doings and corruption in SL cricket. The ICC had expressed satisfaction with security arrangements in Pakistan and sent a match referee and an anti-corruption official. Sumathipala had applied pressure on the SL players in recent days to play in Lahore but a significant number of senior players and coach Pothas refused to tour.

 

Feb 2017

Pakistan’s two opening batsmen Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif have been suspended for match fixing whilst playing for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League T20 competition in Dubai.

Sharjeel, 27, and Latif, 31, join 9 other players who have now been kicked out of the league while the PCB and International Cricket Council continue what the PCB described as “an ongoing investigation into an international syndicate which is believed to be attempting to corrupt the Pakistan Super League”.

Nov 2016

Former South Africa opening batsman Alviro Petersen (35) was charged with match-fixing, following a lengthy investigation into the domestic Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series competition in 2015

Aug 2016

Cricket South Africa banned former wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile for 12 years for his part in the match scandal that has engulfed their domestic T20 competition, while Pumelela Matshikwe, Ethy Mbhalati and Jean Symes received lesser bans for accepting money from Gulam Bodi.

Feb 2016

Former South Africa spinner Gulam Bodi has been banned for 20 years after admitting to fixing a number of domestic Twenty20 matches.

Jan 2016

SA Cricket has named Ghulam Bodi as the South African international as the leader of a ring that operated match fixing schemes during the domestic 2015 Ram Slam Twenty20 Challenge. Bodi played for the Proteas in One Day and T20 matches in 2007.

Angelo Mathews was summoned by the Sri Lankan Police to give evidence as Sri Lanka Cricket suspended fast bowling coach Anusha Samaranayake for two months over an alleged attempt to fix a Test against West Indies. He is accused of bringing in a man with no top-level cricketing experience to help the squad at training sessions. Kusal Perera and Rangana Herath had complained of a net bowler approaching them to spot fix the first Test against the West Indies in Galle in October, which Sri Lanka won by an innings and six runs.

July 2015

In a blow to the BCCI and current ICC Chief Srinivasan, the Supreme Court committee headed by Justice RM Lodha slapped a two-year ban on Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals Teams throwing the IPL into chaos as it only has 6 other teams now. The Lodha panel also banned team owners Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra for life from any cricketing activity after concluding the IPL match fixing probe first initiated by the Supreme Court under Justice Mudgal.

 

PAST TIMELINE 1981 to NOW

July 1981

Australia were in a seemingly unassailable position in the Headingley Test match when they batted first, scored 401 for nine declared having skittled out England for 174. They then had England at 135 for seven in their second innings. At this point, Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh bet against their own team, backing England at the odds of 500 to 1 to win. Then came Ian Botham's massive 149 and Bob Willis's 8 for 43 runs as England achieved a miraculous victory. When the story was exposed there was much unease in cricket circles. Had Lillee and Marsh deliberately thrown the match? Between them, they collected £7,500. No action was taken against them.

1992

Australian batsman Dean Jones claimed to have been offered $50,000 by an Indian to provide information about the team during the Lankan tour.

Aug 1993

Allan Border reveals that he was offered £500,000 by former Pakistan skipper Mushtaq Mohammed to fix a match. Border alleged Mushtaq offered him $1million for Australia to lose the fifth Ashes Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham, in 1993 under his captaincy. In his book Inside Out published in 2006, Mushtaq Mohammed said he only had a “tongue in cheek” conversation with Border on the sidelines of the Test. Mushtaq said he had only made a mention of the infamous 1981 Headingley Test when as he asked Border “what would you do if someone offered you big money to lose this Test match?”

1996

South African skipper Hansie Cronje was introduced to Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta (known as 'John') by Mohammad Azharuddin. It was the start of a long and lucrative relationship for Cronje until he was found out.

1996

Former Indian team manager, Sunil Dev alleges that some of the Indian players indulged in match fixing and demands a judicial enquiry. Sunil Dev who was the manager of the Indian team on the tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1996-97 said at the subsequent Chandrachud inquiry that “Betting on cricket takes place heavily in India. It has been there for about ten years. It has assumed a large proportion since the introduction of one-day games. There is heavier betting on one-day matches because they are result-oriented. I cannot identify any particular player who bets on cricket but I am fairly certain that members of the team do lay a bet and one can only bet to lose. It is easy to get run out or hit a lofted shot. Coaches can detect a deliberate under-performance and so can students of the game. We may have lost some matches because some of our players laid bets to lose”

1997

Manoj Prabhakar accuses a fellow Indian player of offering him Rs 25 lakh to throw a match in Sri Lanka in 1994. His revelation leads the BCCI to appoint a commission to look into the allegation.

1998

Pakistan bowler Ata-ur-Rahman accuses Wasim Akram of offering him Rs 3 lakh to bowl badly against New Zealand. As a result of this allegation, Wasim Akram resigns as captain of the Pakistan team.

1998

Rashid Latif accuses Wasim Akram, Salim Malik, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Ijaz Ahmed of fixing matches. He also accuses Salim Malik of fixing matches during Pakistan's twin tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe in 1994-95.

1998

Mark Waugh, Shane Warne and Tim May claim they were offered $50,000 to lose a Test by Salim Malik during their tour to Pakistan in 1994. The Australian cricket board then asks the ICC to appoint a panel to look into the allegations. The PCB in its enquiry implicates three Pakistan players and recommends a ban on Salim Malik.

1998

Shane Warne and Mark Waugh are fined after they admit to having given pitch and weather information to bookmakers on Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 1994. Warne and Mark Waugh admitted to accepting $11,000 from an Indian bookie to give some information on playing conditions during the ODI tournament played in Sri Lanka in 1994. When the issue was uncovered by the media in late-1998, the two players were widely condemned by the press and public, as was the Australian Cricket Board for their cover-up. Waugh received a hostile reaction from the Australian public when he walked out to bat during a Test match immediately after the news broke. The ACB appointed Rob O'Regan, QC to conduct an independent inquiry into the matter. O'Regan concluded that the fines were inadequate and wrote that a suspension for a "significant time" would have been a more appropriate penalty.

1999

Former England player Chris Lewis says that he was offered £300,000 to persuade England players to lose a match against New Zealand. Chris Lewis, whose allegations against Indian businessman Sanjay Chawla led to an investigation by Scotland Yard, had the case closed in 2004 due to insufficient evidence. In 2008, Lewis was arrested after UK Border Agency seized four kilos of cocaine with an estimated value of £200,000 at Gatwick airport.

April 2000

Delhi police charge Hansie Cronje with fixing South Africa's ODIs against India. Delhi police also reveal that they possess a conversation recorded during the ODI series between India and South Africa in March. They allege that the taped voices were of South African skipper Hansie Cronje and an Indian bookie, Sanjay Chawla. The conversation was about divulging team information and the amount to be paid to Cronje and his team-mates Herschelle Gibbs, Pieter Strydom and Nicky Boje.

April 2000

Hansie Cronje initially denies the charges levelled against him saying, "I have never received any sum of money for any match that I have been involved in and have never approached any of the players and asked them if they wanted to fix a game."

April 2000

The South African cricket board sacks Hansie Cronje after he calls Ali Bacher to confess that he was not entirely honest and admitted to have accepted $10,000 to $15,000 from a London-based bookmaker, for forecasting results, not match-fixing.

April 2000

In the infamous Centurion Test against England in 2000, Hansie Cronje received £5,000 and a leather jacket for contriving a win for Nasser Hussain’s England team when a weather-affected draw looked certain. Cronje made the unexpected step of forfeiting an innings as he stage managed the result.

April 2000

It is revealed that South Africa nearly accepted a $250,000 to lose a ODI against India in Mumbai in 1996. The players had discussed the offer in three meetings before it was turned down as Jonty Rhodes, Dave Richardson and Andrew Hudson were against it.

May 2000

Justice Qayyum recommended life bans on Salim Malik and Mushtaq Ahmed in his report. He also suggested a heavy fine on Wasim Akram, Saeed Anwar, Waqar Younis, Inzamam ul Haq.The former Pakistan captain Malik was banned for life by this judicial inquiry after three Australia players accused him of offering them bribes to underperform in the tour of Sri Lanka in 1994. The report also stated that Wasim Akram should not be allowed to captain Pakistan in the future.

June 2000

Former South African spinner Pat Symcox alleges that the team was offered around $250,000 to throw an ODI, on the first day of the King Commission hearings.

June 2000

Herschelle Gibbs accuses Hansie Cronje of offering him a bribe to throw a match and tells the King Commission that he had accepted Cronje's offer of $15,000 to score less than 20 runs in an ODI in India.

June 2000

Hansie Cronje admits to taking money for giving information to bookmakers and asking his team-mates to play badly. But he tells the King Commission that South Africa had never thrown or fixed a match under his captaincy.

July 2000

Indian income tax officials raid the homes of top cricket players, including those of then national coach Kapil Dev, former players Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Nikhil Chopra.

August 2000

The United Cricket Board of South Africa bans Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams from international cricket for the rest of the year for their involvement in the Cronje scandal.

October 2000

The former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje is banned for life after admitting to match-fixing and having contact with bookmakers. Cronje later died in 2002 in a plane crash in mysterious circumstances.

October 2000

Bookmaker MK Gupta names several players including Brian Lara, Dean Jones, Alec Stewart, Arjuna Ranatunga, Aravinda de Silva, Martin Crowe and Saleem Malik of being involved in match fixing, says a CBI report. The CBI also says that former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin confessed to fixing games with the help of colleagues Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia.

November 2000

BCCI's anti-corruption commissioner K Madhavan finds Mohammad Azharuddin guilty of match-fixing, while Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Sharma and former Indian team physio Ali Irani are found guilty of having links with bookies.

December 2000

BCCI bans Azharuddin for life and Ajay Jadeja for five years for their role in match-fixing. Ajay Sharma is also banned from the game for life, while Prabhakar and the Indian team's former physio, Ali Irani, are barred from holding any official post in Indian cricket for five years.

July 2001

Aravinda De Silva was one of two Sri Lankans mentioned in the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation's report into match-fixing, in which Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta testified that he had paid de Silva and Arjuna Ranatunga for fixing the Lucknow Test in 1994. Gupta also stated that Aravinda de Silva had introduced him to Martin Crowe in New Zealand, a meeting that Crowe later confirmed. A subsequent inquiry in Sri Lanka by Desmond Fernando exonerated both de Silva and Ranatunga on the grounds that Gupta's evidence was "inadequate and untested" after Fernando failed to meet with Gupta.

July 2001

Former England wicketkeeper batsman Alec Stewart is cleared of allegations that he took money from a bookmaker in return for providing team and pitch information during England's 1992-93 tour of India.

May 2004

Marvan Atapattu was cleared of match-fixing allegations for lack of evidence by the Sri Lankan Cricket Board. Earlier, members of the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit were in Sri Lanka to conduct an independent inquiry into the cash ($30,000) that was found in the hotel room of Atapattu after a drawn test match was concluded against England in Kandy.

August 2004

Kenyan player Maurice Odumbe is banned for five years by the Kenyan Cricket Association after he is found guilty of receiving money from bookmakers.

November 2004

Kiwi skipper Stephen Fleming states that he was offered $370,000 during the 1999 World Cup to join a match-fixing syndicate. Fleming claimed he was offered money by an Indian sports promoter during the 1999 World Cup to join a match-fixing syndicate

Mar 2007

Pakistan coach and former England player Bob Woolmer died suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after Pakistan's unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Shortly afterwards, Jamaican police announced that they were opening a murder investigation into Woolmer's death. In November 2007, a jury in Jamaica recorded an open verdict on Woolmer's death, after deciding that there was insufficient evidence of either a criminal act or natural causes.

May 2008

West Indies player Marlon Samuels is banned for two years for allegedly passing on information to an Indian bookie during an ODI series in India in 2007. The West Indies batsman received the ban for breaching cricket's code of conduct following an ICC investigation into his alleged links with the bookmaker

August 2009

The Australia team's management files a report with the ICC's anti-corruption unit after one of their players says he was approached by a man suspected of links to illegal bookmaking, after Australia's defeat to England at Lord's

Jan 2010

The Pakistan team were under scrutiny for their performance in the Test match in Sydney against Australia after player’s manager Mazhar Majeed told the News of the World a betting syndicate had made $1.3 million from the Test, a fact revealed during an undercover sting operation conducted by the newspaper in Aug 2010. This test match had previously been labelled "dysfunctional" by International Cricket Council investigators and denied as being fixed by Cricket Australia after as Ricky Ponting's men pulled off a remarkable come-from-behind victory after trailing by 206 runs on the first innings. Kamran Akmal, the Pakistan wicketkeeper was under investigation for his performance after he dropped four catches.

May 2010

The Bangladesh captain, Shakib-Al-Hasan, confirms he received an approach, believed to be in March 2008, from an unknown person who Shakib believes wanted him to manipulate the result of a one-day match against Ireland

April 2011

Former Sri Lanka captain Hashan Tillakaratne named Aravinda De Silva and Sanath Jayasuriya as he claimed that match-fixing has been rampant in Sri Lanka since 1992. Under pressure, he later retracted these statements.

November 2011

Pakistan's Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif are convicted in a London court and jailed over no-balls bowled deliberately against England at Lord's in 2010. Their agent, Mazheer Majeed, is jailed for two and a half years

January 2012

Former England Under 19 cricketer Mervyn Westfield pleaded guilty to accepting £6,000 to give away runs in the Pro 40 match against Durham and was sentenced to prison. The Essex player was convicted of spot-fixing during the game in September 2009, in which he bowled four wides and two no-balls in a single over.

March 2012

An investigation by The Sunday Times claimed bookies in India had used a Bollywood starlet, Nupur Mehta, to seduce cricketers to fix matches in a “honey pot” sting. The story was accompanied by a pixelated image of the starlet. Mehta admitted that she was dating Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan around the time of the 2009 T20 World Cup in England despite the fact that Dilshan was married at the time. Before that, she had denied knowing any cricketer and had even threatened to sue the paper for carrying her blurred image with a match-fixing report. 'I was seeing Dilshan and went to the casino with him but that does not suggest I am involved with match-fixing in cricket”.

May 2012

Sonu Yogendra Jalan and Devendra Kothari were arrested on by the crime branch for their alleged involvement in betting racket involving the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) matches. Jalan alias Malad has confessed to the Indian police that he had paid Rs 10 crores to a Sri Lankan cricketer for fixing a match. He along with Kothari is believed to be a part of a much bigger betting racket. SL Cricket denied any wrong doing by their players.

May 2012

Five Indian players were banned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the wake of a television sting operation which claimed to have exposed corruption in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL). The IPL governing council met and suspended 5 players: Abhinav Bali, T.P. Sudhindra (Deccan Chargers), Mohnish Mishra (Pune Warriors), Amit Yadav (Kings XI Punjab) and Shalabh Shrivastava (Kings XI Punjab). This was after the BCCI hurriedly setup an inquiry into the incident by Ravi Sawani, the former chief of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit who heads of the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit. TP Sudhindra was given a life ban for "receiving a consideration to spot-fix" in a domestic game and the other four players were banned for 1 to 5 years. In evidence, the banned players also stated that an international captain of one IPL team was heavily involved in match fixing.

June 2012

Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria and seamer Mervyn Westfield were both found guilty of offences by an England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) disciplinary panel. Kaneria was found guilty by the ECB of two charges and was banned for life; he first "induced or encouraged, or attempted to induce or encourage, Mervyn Westfield not to perform on his merits, that is, to deliberately concede a minimum number of runs in his first over of the match between Essex and Durham." and he was also found guilty of bringing cricket into disrepute "by inducing or encouraging Mervyn Westfield not to perform on his merits".

Sept 2012

The Bangladesh Premier League was rocked before it even started as Mashrafe Mortaza reported to his franchise (Dhaka Gladiators) an approach from a fellow cricketer to indulge in spot-fixing during the tournament in Feb 2012. Mashrafe was asked to provide information on whether he would play certain matches and if he would be wearing his sunglasses or cap and was to be paid 15-20 per cent of the earnings from the spot-fixing. Former Bangladesh player Shariful Haque was eventually banned after he was found guilty by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) of attempting this spot fix with Mortaza.

Oct 2012

An Indian TV News channel ran a sting operation in which six umpires from three countries had offered to rig events in return for bribes. The umpires named were Nadeem Ghauri and Anees Siddiqui of Pakistan, Nadir Shah of Bangladesh, and Gamini Dissanayake, Maurice Winston and Sagara Gallage from Sri Lanka. Shah had served on ICC’s international panel whilst Ghauri stood in 43 one-day internationals. The International Cricket Council launched an "urgent investigation" into these match-fixing allegations after seeing the evidence.

May 2013

Current test player Sreeshant and 2 fellow Rajasthan Royal IPL players are arrested by Delhi Police on spot fixing charges. The crisis deepened further as Gurunath Meiyappan, CEO of Chennai Super Kings IPL team was arrested - he is the son in law of BCCI Chief, Srinivasan, who also owns the CSK franchise.

Raj Kundra, owner of Rajasthan Royals, had his passport confiscated after a marathon hearing with the Police and was later suspended by the BCCI pending a formal investigation.

June 2013

Former Bangledeshi captain Mohammad Ashraful confessed to match fixing after the BCB suspended him for spot fixing in the BPL. A total of 9 players have been charged by the ICC, including Sri Lankan spinner Lokuarachchi and Enlgishman Stevens.

Sept 2013

Indian fast bowler S Sreesanth has been banned from cricket for life after being found guilty of spot-fixing.With the credibility of the billion-dollar IPL at stake, the BCCI was always going to deliver strong penalties.

Dec 2013

The Kiwi press reported that 3 New Zealand cricketers - Chris Cairns, Daryl Tuffy and Lou Vincent - were under investigation by the ICC for match fixing. Vincent later confirmed that he was under the ICC scanner.

Feb 2014

The Indian Supreme Court appointed Justice Mudgal Commission submitted its report into match fixing in the Indian IPL and the conduct of BCCI's Chief Srinivasan's son-in-law as the team owner of Chennai Super Kings. In a shocking twist in the report, a bookie in Chennai apparently claimed in evidence that MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina were in on a plan to fix the number of runs the CSK team scored in a match against Rajasthan Royals in May 2013.

Mar 2014

The Indian Supreme Court ordered BCCI Chief Srinivasan to step down from his post whilst they continue the investigation of match fixing charges. As many as 12 or 13 players from five different Indian Premier League franchises with "unverified" allegations against them have been named in the sealed Justice Mukul Mudgal report on corruption.

May 2014

The England and Wales Cricket Board charged former NZ opener Lou Vincent and his former Sussex teammate Naved Arif with fixing. Vincent is the first New Zealander to face such charges.

May 2014

Former New Zealand Test player Chris Cairns was named as Player X amid more evidence against him relating to match fixing. Chris Cairns then named Stephen Fleming, Daniel Vettori and Kyle Mills as three players who have aided the ICC's investigation into his alleged match fixing. The former New Zealand all-rounder has been accused by Lou Vincent and Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand captain, of trying to persuade them to fix during the English summer of 2008

July 2014

Lou Vincent admits to cheating and shaming country. He becomes the first ever Kiwi to be convicted of match fixing as he is banned for life.

Sept 2014

Kiwi all-rounder Chris Cairns was charged with perjury by the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) relating to a libel action he brought in 2012 against Lalit Modi who lost in in the UK courts after alleging that Cairns was a match fixer in a tweet. Current skipper Brendon McCullum was expected to be a key witness to give evidence againt Cairns about alleged match-fixing approaches during the 2008 Test series in the UK.

Nov 2014

In a damaging finding, the apex Indian Supreme Court disclosed the names of 4 people, including the ICC Chief, whose role in the IPL fixing scandal was probed by the Mudgal panel for over the past year. These names include, sidelined BCCI president N. Srinivasan, his son-in-law and former Chennai Super Kings team principal Gurunath Meiyappan, Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra and IPL chief operating officer Sundar Raman. Several players are named in the report but the Supreme Court did not reveal those names yet.

July 2015

In a blow to the BCCI and current ICC Chief Srinivasan, the Supreme Court committee headed by Justice RM Lodha slapped a two-year ban on Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals Teams throwing the IPL into chaos as it only has 6 other teams now. The Lodha panel also banned team owners Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra for life from any cricketing activity after concluding the IPL match fixing probe first initiated by the Supreme Court under Justice Mudgal.

Jan 2016

SA Cricket has named Ghulam Bodi as the South African international as the leader of a ring that operated match fixing schemes during the domestic 2015 Ram Slam Twenty20 Challenge. Bodi played for the Proteas in One Day and T20 matches in 2007.

Angelo Mathews was summoned by the Sri Lankan Police to give evidence as Sri Lanka Cricket suspended fast bowling coach Anusha Samaranayake for two months over an alleged attempt to fix a Test against West Indies. He is accused of bringing in a man with no top-level cricketing experience to help the squad at training sessions. Kusal Perera and Rangana Herath had complained of a net bowler approaching them to spot fix the first Test against the West Indies in Galle in October, which Sri Lanka won by an innings and six runs.

Feb 2016

Former South Africa spinner Gulam Bodi has been banned for 20 years after admitting to fixing a number of domestic Twenty20 matches.

Aug 2016

Cricket South Africa banned former wicketkeeper Thami Tsolekile for 12 years for his part in the match scandal that has engulfed their domestic T20 competition, while Pumelela Matshikwe, Ethy Mbhalati and Jean Symes received lesser bans for accepting money from Gulam Bodi.

Nov 2016

Former South Africa opening batsman Alviro Petersen (35) was charged with match-fixing, following a lengthy investigation into the domestic Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series competition in 2015

Feb 2017

Pakistan’s two opening batsmen Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif have been suspended for match fixing whilst playing for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League T20 competition in Dubai.

Sharjeel, 27, and Latif, 31, join 9 other players who have now been kicked out of the league while the PCB and International Cricket Council continue what the PCB described as “an ongoing investigation into an international syndicate which is believed to be attempting to corrupt the Pakistan Super League”.

Oct 2017

SL Cricket Chief Thilanga Sumathipala, who hails from a family of influential bookies, has been attacked by the SL media and critics on allegations of widespread corruption under his watch. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has setup a probe into spot fixing in SL cricket recently after former a former selector aired wrong doings and corruption in SL cricket. The ICC had expressed satisfaction with security arrangements in Pakistan and sent a match referee and an anti-corruption official. Sumathipala had applied pressure on the SL players in recent days to play in Lahore but a significant number of senior players and coach Pothas refused to tour.

May 2018

An explosive Al Jazeera sting has uncovered widespread match fixing in cricket and questions the validity of 3 matches: India vs Sri Lanka (Galle, July 26-29, 2017), India vs Australia (Ranchi, March 16-20, 2017) and India vs England (Chennai, December 16-20, 2016). Players from Australia, England and Sri Lanka are implicated for taking money from criminal elements to spot fix matches.

Oct 2018

Sri Lankan legend Sanath Jayasuriya was charged with match fixing corruption by the ICC.

The charges against Jayasuriya relate to his role as Sri Lanka’s chairman of selectors, which ended in August 2017, not long after the Sri Lankans had surprisingly lost a one-day series at home to Zimbabwe.

Oct 2018

As part of its Munawar Tapes Investigation, Al-Jazeera found evidence in 26 spot fixing scams in 15 international matches.

The matches involving England include the 2011 Lord’s Test against India and all three Tests of the 2012 series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates. In limited-overs cricket there are games against Bangladesh, South Africa and the Netherlands during the 2011 World Cup, as well as versus Afghanistan in the 2012 World T20.

It is the second time Australia has been identified in Al Jazeera’s Munawar Tapes investigation into cricket match fixing. The matches include the 2011 Test match between Australia and South Africa in Cape Town and the 2011 2nd Test between Australia and New Zealand in Hobart.

FEB 2019

Former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya was banned for two years after admitting to violating anti-corruption code as part of ICC's widespread probe into match fixing in Sri Lankan cricket.

After being charged in Oct 2018, Jayasuriya immediately declared his innocence. Jayasuriya finally admitted to "concealing, tampering with or destroying evidence".

Article Last Updated: 27 Feb 2019

 

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