Cricket Matches and India: Tribune India

No one should be surprised by Zimbabwe’s former captain Brendan Taylor’s claim that an Indian businessman tried to lure him into the dark world of match-fixing in 2019. In a detailed statement he posted on social media on Monday, Taylor said he was offered $ 15,000 by an Indian businessman in October of that year. that he would travel to India to discuss possible sponsorship agreements and the possibility of hosting a T20 competition in Zimbabwe. Once in India, he says he used cocaine at a party with a businessman and his colleagues. He alleges that the men then forced him to consent to a match-fixing and warned that they would post a video of him using cocaine if he did not consent. He says he said yes just to get out of India, but he never took part in the match-fixing.

It is no secret that while betting and gambling are illegal in India, our country is the center of an illegal cricket betting company. It is estimated that more than $ 200 million worth of illegal bets will be placed on every one-day international match played by the Indian team. Taylor comes from a weak team, and his statement is like a plot thriller, but the methods used by illegal betting associations and corrupters have often been dramatic in the past – as they are willing to go any further. player and get him involved in match-fixing. One obvious mistake he made was to report the matter to the International Cricket Council after a four-month delay.

This case and the Indian match-fixing and point conciliation cases must lead to serious self-examination and dialogue between officials, players and legislators. In 2018, the Justice Lodha Committee recommended legalizing sports betting in the country. Oddly enough, online gambling and betting are booming in India because the law governing them is vague and ambiguous. The Karnataka Supreme Court ruled last week that match-fixing is not a crime under current Indian law. Indian legislators and legal fraternities must seriously consider the idea of ​​legalizing betting and criminalizing match-fixing in the country, as proposed by the Indian Law Commission in 2018.