If found guilty, BCCI to ask ICC to erase Sreesanth records

In 1997, Manoj Prabhakar alleged an "unknown team member" had tried to bribe him to underperform in three matches against Pakistan in Sharjah and Colombo, and one against West Indies, at various times. The probe: The BCCI set up a one-man commission ...

Corruption has not limited itself to cricket alone. There have been scandals in football, tennis, badminton, snooker, and in years gone, baseball. In boxing, fixed fights have been known to be rife. The thing with cricket, though, as last week's ...

More in: Cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties, it has been said over and over again. Whenever the term uncertainty comes, the punters come into play. The occasional betting becomes organised as some astute managers who call themselves bookies ...

With match-fixing in sports yet not defined under any law, the Government is contemplating a legislation that can define the offence and provide strict punishment for the guilty. The Government's latest move may revive hopes of a possible solution ...

In 2008, Sir Paul Condon, former chief of ICC's ACSU had told the international cricket body that the IPL brings with it the biggest threat in terms of corruption in the game since the days of cricket in Sharjah. Eerily, those words seem prophetic ...

Just as cricket has survived numerous scandals in the past, so it will the alleged spot-fixing saga that exploded in our faces with the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League seemingly headed for a smooth climax. The supposed involvement of S ...

Oops he did it again! Sreesanth made it back to the top of last week's Twitter trends list. Not even a month after he was just here for playing the innocent victim of an allegedly huge cover-up during the Slapgate incident.For those of you who may ...

, the then Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police, KK Paul, announced that his men had proof that the captain of the South Africa cricket team, HansieCronje and three teammates, including opener Herschelle Gibbs, fixed matches in a series played in ...

All these incidents have one thing in common none of them were uncovered by the ICC and its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, or by any of the domestic boards. And only in one case that of the Pakistan players was anyone sent to jail. A Times of ...