Spot-fixing case may fall apart

Im neither Chetan Bhagat, nor am I Hansie Cronje, but here's my five-point plan on how to be a successful spot-fixer and not get caught. 1. Communication is key. What is with this Chandila and Chawan? Who discusses which ball youre going to drop ...

I have written about this some years ago but it bears repeating. Nearly 15 years ago when the Hansie Cronje scandal had hit the headlines round the cricketing world, a top ranking police officer had told me there were only two honest men in the ...

Former South Africa captain Clive Rice has said that Bob Woolmer and Hansie Cronje were murdered.

The cricketing world was shocked in 2000, when Delhi Police named then South African captain Hansie Cronje, who died later, his team mates Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje in the match-fixing case. Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin and his ...

The time for being shocked is long over. One was shocked 13 years ago, when Hansie Cronje and Mohammad Azharuddin were alleged to have fixed games, but now isn’t the time for naivety. Everyone has rightly ranted about the somewhat hypocritical stance of ...

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 ...

_ Thirteen years after the Delhi Police shocked the cricketing world by busting 'Cronjegate', it is still grappling with evidence to file a preliminary chargesheet in that case.But only 48 hours after it exposed spot-fixing in IPL, Police ...

New Delhi, May 16: Delhi police crime branch inspector Ishwar Singh was burning the telephone lines on a fine day in March 2000, trying to trace the calls of Salim "Hatheli", suspected of running an extortion racket in the capital. Salim "Hatheli" ...

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 ...