HISTORY OF MATCH FIXING IN INDIA The start to the new millennium was not very auspicious for the Cricket world, as were engulfed in a series of match fixing scandals that has left the world socked and bewildered. The first trace of cheating in cricket was found in 1994-95, Shane Warne and Mark Waugh - two of the greatest names in the history of Australian cricket were guilty of supplying information about team selection, weather and pitch to an Indian bookmaker in 1994. They were let off easily because
Growing up in a country, where cricket is passion, obviously meant that most of children in India grew up with icon figures of cricketers as role models be it Sunil Gavaskar, who broke the record of Sir Don Bradman of scoring maximum centuries in test cricket, or Kapil Dev under whose captaincy India won the first world cup way back in year 1983 beating fancied and favorites West Indies with the best pace attack of Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner, the best opening
Cricket is a game now played all over the world. Back in the 1920s there were two main teams, Australia and England. The Ashes are a series of cricket test matches between Australia and England. The first Ashes test ever played was on March 15th 1877 in Australia. Since then Ashes tests between Australia and England have flourished numbering a series approximately every three years. The overall Ashes results are in favor of Australia, while since 1989 the Ashes series have all been won by Australia
Cricket is one of the exciting sport in the world. It is played by most countries in the world. Cricket is not that popular in the United States compare to the countries like India, England, Australia and many more. Cricket was discovered in Southern England before the 16th century. Cricket is a bat and ball game (similar to Baseball) played between two teams of eleven players each on a field. At the center of which is a rectangular twenty- two yard long pitch. The game is played by millions of player
adore the most. Mahindra Singh Dhoni is Captain of Indian Cricket Team. He plays as a wicket-keeper and lower ordered batsmen. Dhoni has developed not just as an awesome player in recent years, however his initiative qualities have inspired the whole way across the globe. M.S Dhoni drove India to win Cricket World Cup in 2011 following 28 years. Aside from winning Cricket World Cup, Dhoni likewise captained India to win first T20 Cricket World Cup and Champions Trophy, feat accomplished by just commander
India. It has become an emblem of Indian nationhood, dominated by males the practice of a national sports is the country’s symbol of the evolution of Indian modernity. Appadurai states, “The means of modernity contained in cricket require a confluence of lived interests where cricket producers and consumers can share the excitement of ‘Indiannes’ without its many divisive scars” (Appadurai, 179). Like Cricket, Field Hockey introduced to India by the British during the colonialism of the Indian empire
very true that cricket is a single sport dominating many other sports in India. Cricket passion dominated our national sport hockey. There is no doubt that today cricket is diminishing other sports in our country. People think cricket, eat cricket, drink cricket, wear cricket every day in India. Every children in school taught that hockey is national game but cricket is known by birth in the nation. It’s very common sight that every street corner you can see children playing cricket in India, but
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:
Tonga is made up of 176 islands that are scattered over 270,000 square miles of the South Pacific Ocean. The country is known as the Friendly Islands. The country of Tonga has many sports teams. Some of the most popular sports ingratiated into the culture of Tonga are rugby, surfing, and cricket. The most famous sport in Tonga is rugby. Rugby is often thought to be a combination of American football and soccer, but in-fact is not as close as commonly believed. Rugby was started in England and spread
'' my father announced last fall at home in Katonah, N.Y., as our family was celebrating Diwali, the Hindu New Year. With that, my parents and I began making plans to travel to Pakistan. My father and his entire extended family fled from there in 1947, when India gained independence and was partitioned into Muslim Pakistan and mostly Hindu India. It was not a trip we had been expecting to take. My father's family left Lahore, where they had thought they would live their whole lives, after what the
notice the difference between cricket and baseball. In fact, both sports share a lot of the same ideas, just with different interpretations. Although there are many striking similarities between baseball and cricket, including their origins and the equipment used, an observer can notice the disparity between the two games in regards to their rules and their respectable techniques of playing. Many people may not know that baseball and cricket both originated in England. Cricket was always the favorite
Field hockey can also be referred to as Hockey. It is a team sport wherein a team of players attempts to score goals by pushing, hitting or flicking a ball into the opposing team’s goal using sticks. The term field hockey would only be used in countries where the simple term hockey was used for different forms such as ice hockey, street hockey and etc. Field hockey has myriad international tournaments for genders, male and female, although in some countries such as the US, field hockey is played
“Bangladesh is one of the world’s youngest nations. Historically it has been part of India and has been reborn twice, once as East Pakistan and again as Bangladesh” (“Cultures of the World: Bangladesh” 1). This has shown that even though it’s one of the youngest nations, it has been through a lot and has experienced a lot. The environment, religion, arts, leisure, and food are what make Bangladesh the wonderful place it is. Bangladesh’s outlook for the environment is unwelcoming. Severely degraded
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