World Cup 2011 clouded by spot fixing?

[MW1304]

Akmals drops off Taylor were the most suspicious thing I saw.

Nah way. He's just ****.

 

[Blaze 18]

Nah way. He's just ****.

Truer words have rarely been spoken. Let's not make excuses for Kamran, he's just an awful wicket-keeper. Forget being the best in his country, he's arguably not even the best in his family.

 

[MW1304]

Truer words have rarely been spoken. Let's not make excuses for Kamran, he's just an awful wicket-keeper. Forget being the best in his country, he's arguably not even the best in his family.

Probably not even the second best in the family.

 

[Furball]

Akmals drops off Taylor were the most suspicious thing I saw.

I'd be more suspicious if he actually caught one.

 

[GotSpin]

Still on this ridiculous ****? Australia scoring slowly and Warne predicting a tie? Give me a break.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

It's not really about earning a **** load as it is.There's always the greed to earn more,which is human nature.I'm not defending match fixing,but the 'already earning a lot' argument is pretty naive TBH.

Nice work. You've called the argument naive rather than the poster, thus avoiding any potential infraction. Excellent!

Anyway, I'd suspect that the amounts earned by Indian, English and Australian players is many-fold higher than the amounts that Prabhakar, Malik or anyone in the early 90s would have earned. Would you jeopardise an IPL contract worth millions for a few extra squid in your backpocket through match fixing? Bull****. Unless you'd had a full frontal lobotomy. It doesn't take much more work out that an IPL contract is worth considerably more than the money you'd rake in from match fixing. The difference for Butt, Asif and Aamir is that the inherent anti-Pakistan sentiment in the IPL hierarchy means that they don't get picked and miss out on that massive earning potential. Naive? Well, I'd rather be naive than paranoid.

 

[Athlai]

Yeah during the spot fixing scandal IIRC they did bring up how much less Pakistani cricketers earn than other teams.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Yeah during the spot fixing scandal IIRC they did bring up how much less Pakistani cricketers earn than other teams.

Exactly. To suggest that a post may be naive when you're implying that you'd risk a $1m+ IPL contract (in some cases) for a few g's of illegal spot fixing money? Well, I'll let you make up your own mind.

 

[TT Boy]

Source.

Brown.

 

[Jono]

Heath is spot on.

 

[angad]

Yeah during the spot fixing scandal IIRC they did bring up how much less Pakistani cricketers earn than other teams.

Yea differance is HUGE.

eg.

Grade A Pakistani player earns - Pakistani Rupees 30 lakh ($35,108) + $4,000 per test + $2,000 per ODI + $1,000 per T20
Grade A Indian player earns - Indian Rupees 1 Crore ($225,990) + $16,000 per test + $10,000 per ODI + $5,000 per T20

ie. 35,000 + 32,000 (8 average tests/yr) + 50,000 (25 ODIs average) + 5,000 (5 T20s) = ~ US $ 120,000 for Pakistani player
226,000 + 128,000 (8 average tests/yr) + 250,000 (25 ODIs average) + 25,000 (5 T20s) = ~ US $ 630,000 for India player

^ thats 6x right there.

Plus Millions from IPL, TV ads etc etc.

Inflation is also higher in Pakistan, Upper class Pakistani's prefer to live in Defence Colony etc posh areas due to safety provided.

I don't know how much PCB alloted to domestic players.

PCB management sucks!!!

 

[Furball]

Still no sources other than "I saw it on the news."

Why is this still open?

 

[GIMH]

Nice work. You've called the argument naive rather than the poster, thus avoiding any potential infraction. Excellent!

Anyway, I'd suspect that the amounts earned by Indian, English and Australian players is many-fold higher than the amounts that Prabhakar, Malik or anyone in the early 90s would have earned. Would you jeopardise an IPL contract worth millions for a few extra squid in your backpocket through match fixing? Bull****. Unless you'd had a full frontal lobotomy. It doesn't take much more work out that an IPL contract is worth considerably more than the money you'd rake in from match fixing. The difference for Butt, Asif and Aamir is that the inherent anti-Pakistan sentiment in the IPL hierarchy means that they don't get picked and miss out on that massive earning potential. Naive? Well, I'd rather be naive than paranoid.

Excellent post. 100 per cent AWTA

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

It was stupid enough that Pakistani players got invovled in spot fixing, given their pronounced legacy of suspicion. This would be a new level of stupid, if anyone got involved with bookies at this time.

 

[Adamc]

Would you jeopardise an IPL contract worth millions for a few extra squid in your backpocket through match fixing?

Depends how much you enjoy calamari, I suppose.

Since spot-fixing depends on the outcome of events and passages of play rather than the match as a whole, it seems more likely that fixers would target cricketers from associate nations who wouldn't stand to lose nearly as much if caught out in terms of their career and lost earnings. Also much harder to detect anomalous performances since most of the associate cricketers play so little cricket against test nations.

 

[Daemon]

Anyone involved should be made to bat without protective equipment against Akhtar, Lee, Roach and Tait.