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Post by longhops on Jul 27, 2014 21:28:33 GMT
Best not try and do School work on laptop while trying to watch cricket then!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 8:05:32 GMT
As of August 1 and the start of the English football season, it is an offence for any employee of a football club (including directors and some subcontractors) to place a bet on a football match anywhere in the world.
This new FA ruling applies to every employee of every club from the Premier League to Step 4 level. It means, for example, that technically it is now illegal for the lad on the turnstiles at BHA to put a fiver on Barcelona to beat Real Madrid.
Has the ECB imposed a similar ruling? Extraordinary as it may seem, it was only a couple of seasons ago that the ECB asppointed Betfair as its 'official betting partner' and a number of other counties were carrying ads on their websites for spot-betting 'games' such as 'Roulette Cricket'...
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Post by mrsdoyle on Jul 28, 2014 19:13:56 GMT
Have you seen those ads with Swann and Blowers? Just crazy.
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Post by flashblade on Jul 28, 2014 20:01:55 GMT
Have you seen those ads with Swann and Blowers? Just crazy. Yes, and aren't they cringingly embarrassing as well?!  |
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Post by twelvegrand on Aug 10, 2014 12:33:57 GMT
I think I'm on record as being critical of English players and teams (including Sussex) so I feel slightly less bad in saying that test match looked like it was well and truly fixed to avoid the draw.
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 29, 2014 9:33:56 GMT
And the latest manifestation, reported in cricinfo Cardiff intercepts bookmaking scam Well spotted by the stewards or officers of the anti-corruption unit, but it must be very difficult to police in a crowded stadium, unless the behaviour of the offender is so obvious as to invite suspicion. |
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Post by flashblade on Aug 29, 2014 9:46:01 GMT
Betting fraud never seems to be far away from cricket, does it?
I'm disappointed (please note use of the current fashionable euphemism) to see that gambling companies are still allowed to advertise their services in the middle of cricket matches. The advert 'starring' Blofeld and Swann strikes me as particularly inappropriate.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 10:23:14 GMT
And the latest manifestation, reported in cricinfo Cardiff intercepts bookmaking scam Well spotted by the stewards or officers of the anti-corruption unit, but it must be very difficult to police in a crowded stadium, unless the behaviour of the offender is so obvious as to invite suspicion. The only thing wrong with the cricinfo story is the opening line: "In a move that will reawaken fears about the relationship between gambling and cricket..." The fears didn't need reawakening because they never went to sleep and Chris Watts and the ACU have been ever vigilant all summer. My understanding is that every televised match this season has been attended by officers of the Anti-Corruption Unit and county stewards are also given training in what to watch for. There have been spot checks/searches at the gate for laptops at televised matches and those carrying them have been closely questioned and a watchful eye kept upon them during the game (I think s&f may even have suffered this indignity?) And I am personally aware of at least two T20 Blast matches where spectators were evicted for suspected "court-sliding" as it is called in the betting world. I'm sure there are many other examples this season of which I am not aware. I think what happened at Cardiff was simply that someone noticed the eviction and told the press; I'd be pretty certain that it's far from the first eviction for illegal betting activity from a Test match/ODI this summer, but that the media wasn't alerted on previous occasions. The quarter-final at Canterbury today will certainly be very closely policed for suspicious behaviour. I was intending to go, but a phone call from the ground says it's raining and the covers are on, so I shall stay home and watch whatever play there is on TV. Forecast is apparently 'Bryter Layter', as the late, great Nick Drake once sang - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr3-ScLFG4w |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 14:34:32 GMT
Mrs Doyle, I also saw someone with a laptop taken away for questioning at the Glam game. Scary isn't it, my son thought perhaps the ones we saw were drunk but they didn't look drunk to me. Good news is Sussex seem to be on the ball. See earlier interchange with Mrs Doyle about our game with Glam. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 15:27:22 GMT
The ECB's Anti-Corruption Unit has three 'spies' at the Royal London Cup quarter-final today, keeping close tabs on those who are using laptops!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2014 11:02:09 GMT
Darren Stevens and the others involved in the Bangladesh match-fixing case are set to spend a second winter 'in the dock'. After the case was dismissed by a specially-appointed tribunal earlier this year as not proven, the ICC has declared the findings were "incorrect" and is staging an appeal to the Bangladesh Board's disciplinary panel. The ICC continues to believe it has Stevens and others 'bang to rights' and if the decision is not overturned by the panel, the ICC is reportedly prepared to take the case all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
The ICC statement: "The ICC and the Bangladesh Cricket Board can confirm that we have received the full written decision from the Anti-Corruption Tribunal. As previously indicated, we are extremely disappointed at the outcome of the proceedings, and seeing the reasons given by the tribunal for its decision has done nothing to address our concerns. In the ICC's view, clear and compelling evidence of corruption by a number of individuals have not been taken into account properly. Having now had the opportunity to review the detailed decision in its entirety and taken advice on it, we believe that we have very strong grounds on which we can base our appeal. We do not believe that the sport would be sending the right message if it does not challenge what, in our opinion, are incorrect findings."
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 13, 2014 7:03:48 GMT
Strange that this forthcoming charge Chris Cairns: Ex-New Zealand all-rounder to be charged with perjury has received so little coverage. Nothing has been reported in ESP cricinfo, despite the obvious connections through the Lalit Modi libel trial with the huge Indian supporter base there, and nothing has been released yet by the ECB. This is odd because there are potentially enormous implications if it is proved that Cairns was perjuring himself. Lou Vincent's recent testimony spoke of the big Test star who had put Vincent under pressure to act corruptly, and there is a distinct possibility that a large number of matches and individual performances should now come under renewed scrutiny, and perhaps a few more reputations will be seen to have been tarnished. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Sept 16, 2014 19:43:53 GMT
While nothing in the British press, news is hotting up over the Cairns case. McCullum is a primary whistle-blower which is good news but placing an injunction on a newspaper is not. Where does McCullum stand in all of this? It seems confusing. One senses if Cairns is found guilty he could start blabbing to all and asunder to reduce his prison sentence and the can of worms is well and truly opened. We shall see. www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/cricket/10496707/ |
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 16, 2014 21:24:40 GMT
While nothing in the British press, news is hotting up over the Cairns case. McCullum is a primary whistle-blower which is good news but placing an injunction on a newspaper is not. Where does McCullum stand in all of this? It seems confusing. One senses if Cairns is found guilty he could start blabbing to all and asunder to reduce his prison sentence and the can of worms is well and truly opened. We shall see. www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/cricket/10496707/I think the critical date is 25 September when the CPS charges will be filed: why then and not earlier is not clear, but I presume there has been some legal manouevering, perhaps to ensure the involvement of witnesses. This show could run and run..... |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 15, 2014 12:37:48 GMT
Will tomorrow become the pivotal point with the ongoing match-fixing scandals? The day Chris Cairns walks into 'Southwark Crown Court' to begin his perjury trial? Could this be the day when the simmering can of worms - the can the world cricketing authorities are so afraid of - is opened? Cairns could be the key. Finally, the public may hear about the whole shoddy, appalling affair that might have plagued cricket around the world for at least two decades, as Cairns pleads for clemency in return for spilling the beans? One imagines there are players both domestic and international representing nearly all the cricketing nations who will be following this case with both a keen vested interest and a certain amount of trepidation. As for the ICC, they must be quaking in their boots if the whole gaudy affair does get out to the world. Yet, cricket along with other sports, has always managed to keep a lid on things. A few players emerge from the tawdry depths, are punished and vilified, and then the top is firmly shut allowing the majority to breathe a sigh of relief. It has to be that way. Otherwise, sport would be destroyed. At least, the case is being heard in England rather than Mumbai which is a positive. But to hope for fireworks during the ensuing weeks may be more a fantasy than reality. A damp squib, perhaps, could be the outcome. Yet, the intriguing aspect of this case is Lou Vincent. Here is an opportunity for him to gain some sort of redemption. To out Cairns as a potential liar. The Kiwi Captain who lured him into the seamy and grubby world of the Asian underworld (so he claims). The man whom he looked up to and thought was a good friend; who then royally corrupted him and made his life a hell (so he claims). Intriguing indeed. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11335196 |
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