Match Fixing In Cricket
analytical Essay
832 words
HYPOTHESIS
By the end of this research the researcher would like to prove how the fixing scandals impact the game. The research will also emphasize the present legislations in place for such events and their implementations. The researcher will also suggest a few majors for the betterment of the legislations in place, and the legislations to-be.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• How to prevent, detect and respond to match fixing in sports?
• What must be done?
• What is the criminal liability of fixing?
• What are the current statues in place?
• What recommendation could be made to stop fixing?
CHAPTERIZATION
Chapter One would describe about the current state of fixing in sport and what are its effects on the game and people.
Chapter Two deals with fixing in occurrences in Cricket in a nation which worships cricket and consider it a religion, rather than a sport.
Chapter Three deals with the current state of country India in terms of laws present and procedure followed in the case of fixing.
Chapter Four deals with Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 and how fixing come into its ambit.
Chapter Five deals with the recommendation made by the researcher to stop spot-fixing in IPL and cricket.
LITERATURE REVIEW
FIXING THE FIXERS: THE JUSTIFICATION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR MATCH-FIXING by NISHANT GOKHALE
The author is this article about the criminal liability of match-fixing. The only question by the author is ‘what must be done?’ By talking into consideration at the instances and concepts involved in and also the nature of match-fixing as well as the existing framework of penal laws in India and other sanctions which may apply to the same. This paper argues that criminal liability should be imposed on match-fixing. Wh...
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... just tire the players, it also bores them and more perilously it makes them vulnerable to the bookies phone call.
Match-fixing is not a new phenomenon in Indian cricketing scenario. In 1979-80 for the first time it was alleged that in the third test of the India-Pakistan series in Mumbai, the Pakistan team lost the test intentionally. Aussie Dean Jones claims that in 1992-93 an Indian offered him 50,000 dollar to reveal certain information. Similarly in 1993, 1994, 1996, many players have claimed that they were offered money either to give information or to play badly and lose the game. In 1998 the Australian Cricket Board accepted that Mark Waugh and Shane Warne had given information of the pitch and weather to certain bookies and in 2000 Hansie Cronje’s admission to passing on information to a bookie for 10,000 dollars rocked the world of cricket and its belief.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the researcher would like to prove how the fixing scandals impact the game. they will also emphasize the present legislations in place for such events and their implementation.
- Argues that criminal liability should be imposed on match-fixing and provides justifications for the above.
- Describes the chapters that describe the current state of fixing in sport and its effects on the game and people.
- Discusses the pressing need for strong legislation for cricket in india.
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