Cricket corruption

[slippy888]

Why is it the worst sport for fixing you never hear about NBA or baseball or soccer match fixing.

 

[OverratedSanity]

you never hear about NBA or baseball or soccer match fixing.

Um, you might want to look this up.

 

[OverratedSanity]

But yes, I think a cricket match being a large set of hundreds of discrete events (each of which can be bet on) makes it an attractive fixing target.

 

[Bijed]

I really don't know how cricket actually compares to most other sports in terms of corruption, but I guess compared to quite a lot of others it's more vulnerable to things like spot-fixing just because of the nature of the sport - i.e individual players actually have to power to guarantee that something like bowling a no-ball at a specific point happens, whereas a sport such as soccer (feel a bit dirty calling it that tbh, but will do so for the sake of clarity) is much more uncontrolled hence harder to spot-fix.

Actual match-fixing I think is relatively rare across all sports?

Edit: Aww, ninja'd, and more succinctly too

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Italian_football_scandal

 

[sledger]

Why is it the worst sport for fixing you never hear about NBA or baseball or soccer match fixing.

Probably because some of the nations in which a lot of cricket is played are known for being utterly corrupt in and of themselves. Not naming any names.

 

[Compton]

Players are paid much poorer at he highest level than most other sports. Means it's cheap to fix. Plus it's a spot better's dream for all the daft things you can be on.