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Post by fraudster on Jan 20, 2016 11:03:41 GMT
If I were investigating match fixing, I would look closely at the Australia v India game going on right now. Specifically, whether there's been any big bets put down on an India loss between 30 and 42 overs. It was in the bag for them, but it looks like they've 'managed' (literally) to lose - although they haven't just yet. The throwing away of wickets has been beyond ridiculous - like catching practice. They have absurdly gifted numerous chances to the Aussies from 275-1 chasing 349, and the Aussies have dropped several simple chances in the process.
Edit: They needed a run a ball, or so, at 275-1.
Second edit: India are all out and have lost. What should I invest my new found wealth in?
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 20, 2016 11:20:21 GMT
If I were investigating match fixing, I would look closely at the Australia v India game going on right now. Specifically, whether there's been any big bets put down on an India loss between 30 and 42 overs. It was in the bag for them, but it looks like they've 'managed' (literally) to lose - although they haven't just yet. The throwing away of wickets has been beyond ridiculous - like catching practice. They have absurdly gifted numerous chances to the Aussies from 275-1 chasing 349, and the Aussies have dropped several simple chances in the process. Edit: They needed a run a ball, or so, at 275-1. Second edit: India are all out and have lost. What should I invest my new found wealth in? That's exactly the problem fraudster: at what stage do you stop attributing these things to sheer incompetence and start suspecting devious motives? |
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Post by flashblade on Jan 20, 2016 11:24:09 GMT
If I were investigating match fixing, I would look closely at the Australia v India game going on right now. Specifically, whether there's been any big bets put down on an India loss between 30 and 42 overs. It was in the bag for them, but it looks like they've 'managed' (literally) to lose - although they haven't just yet. The throwing away of wickets has been beyond ridiculous - like catching practice. They have absurdly gifted numerous chances to the Aussies from 275-1 chasing 349, and the Aussies have dropped several simple chances in the process. Edit: They needed a run a ball, or so, at 275-1. Second edit: India are all out and have lost. What should I invest my new found wealth in? That's exactly the problem fraudster: at what stage do you stop attributing these things to sheer incompetence and start suspecting devious motives? Perhaps look at the betting patterns? |
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Post by fraudster on Jan 20, 2016 11:25:31 GMT
When suspicious betting patterns have occurred, I would say. Well I just did.
"Specifically, whether there's been any big bets put down on an India loss between 30 and 42 overs."
That's what I said.
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 20, 2016 11:37:37 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 20, 2016 16:46:10 GMT
Ed Hawkins is the expert at picking out unusual betting patterns. That is how he got involved in researching cricket match-fixing after he first began working for 'Betfair'. When we chatted a few years back, the 'off the record' information he offered was enough to curl anyone's toes. I was depressed for several days afterwards. I am sure Ed is presently studying the India/Australia match. betting.betfair.com/authors/ed-hawkins/Meanwhile, the tennis fixing revelations are evolving to plan. The establishment brought out their big tennis star guns earlier this week, proclaiming they know little about it and even when Novak Djokovic mentioned his $200,000 approach to lose a first-round match at a tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9 years ago (it's always in some distant past land), he said it had been an approach through an intermediary staff member ie. Nothing to do with him. Now, on day 4 since the scandal first blew, we have another side of the story and so it develops into phase 2. Meanwhile, the excellent interview from the link below goes to plan. 'There is no problem... where is the evidence?' says the Integrity Unit Head. DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL... He continues, "The players are genuinely shocked..." espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/14594431/novak-djokovic-says-was-offered-200000-lose-match-2007Now read this latest article. A choice quote, "We could co-operate with Tennis Integrity if we wanted to, but they don't want it to be stopped.". www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35356550Sadly, Chris Kermode reminds me with that sad, victimised and down-trodden face of Mr 'toothless' Flanagan. I would not be surprised if tennis becomes the next athletics or FIFA where the people at the very top are being paid large sums of money by the Russian and Italian Mafias to turn a blind eye. Finally, anyone who doesn't fall asleep after 3 minutes wins a prize. God forbid if cricket is seen as the leaders in tackling corruption in sport. That 'Hamlet' quote comes to mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSfRZxR_jesedit: Tennis match-fixing claims are hotting up. Has Novak Djokovic been outed? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35366400 |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 21, 2016 14:33:32 GMT
Chris 'Commode' (sorry, couldn't resist) goes on the attack against his critics in an exclusive interview for 'The Independent'. Choice Quotes“We deny 100 per cent the insinuation that the governing bodies are suppressing evidence and that there’s a Fifa-type scandal...” "...the suggestion that this is prevalent everywhere is [wrong]... we have to keep this in perspective.” “We’re talking about a handful of players among those thousands [who play the game] who might be tempted to cross the line and
go into criminality.”Nevertheless, is the TIU’s staff of six big enough to police a sport played all around the world? “[That might not seem a lot] on the surface, when you consider 100,000 matches are played every year at 1,500 tournaments, but
it’s not just a question of throwing people at this...” The problem being, we've heard it all before with cricket, athletics, FIFA, football... This 'Cry Wolf' of innocence, just a handful of players, no suppression etc.. does not fool the public, anymore. Kermode is just an innocent patsy, a frontman, unwittingly covering up a far deeper corruption taking place behind his back. It is now down to the BBC and Buzzfeed to name actual names with strong evidence to back their claims up. At present, apart from the Italian newspaper who named Novak Djokovic, it's still speculation and conjecture. www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/tennis-match-fixing-atp-chief-denies-corruption-is-widespread-in-the-sport-a6824056.html |
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 21, 2016 14:43:20 GMT
Marina Hyde's sports column in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/jan/20/fifa-iaaf-tennis-icss-sport is nicely satirical about the mock-innocence of sport's supposed custodians: " Even at this stage of the revelations about tennis, I dare you to say Tennis Integrity Unit without reflexively deploying sarcastic air quotes. Sarcastic air quotes are tearing through sport like a contagion. I think it’s fair to say we’re going to struggle to resuscitate “the IAAF ethics commission”. And only the very optimistic can be holding out a lot of hope for the soon-to-be established “IAAF integrity unit”." |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 22, 2016 13:26:03 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 23, 2016 8:00:55 GMT
"I can say, absolutely categorically, there were no deals done with Brendon McCullum," Ronnie Flanagan said in a radio interview to Newstalk ZB on Saturday, being questioned about whether McCullum's testimony in the recent Cairns trial was given after promises of his own personal immunity from facing charges of failling to report an offer of a bribe. www.rediff.com/cricket/report/fixing-did-iccs-anti-corruption-unit-shield-mccullum/20160123.htmYes, well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Because one of the following propositions is true: A) McCullum's testimony was false and there was no attempt at fixing McCullum's performance by Cairns, in which case why did the ACSU believe it strongly enough to proceed with the case? B) McCullum's testimony was correct and the rest of the evidence-gathering was shaky whereupon the trial collapsed - in which case ACSU should have gone ahead with censuring McCullum for failing to report a bribe. Sir Ronnie, of course has form. As the former Chief Constable of the Police Force of Northern Ireland, and for a time the CC of its predecessor organisation the Royal Ulster Constabulary, his reign was marked by a string of tragic errors, cover-ups and bizarre, though vehement language: The Police Ombudsman had criticised Sir Ronald's role in the RUC inquiry into the Omagh Bombing of 1998, in a report published in 2001, to which Sir Ronald's response was that he would “publicly commit suicide” if he believed her report was correct, though he later apologised for the form of words he used. His susccessor, Sir Hugh Orde, was forced to apologise when a report by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, made findings of collusion between members of the proscribed paramilitary organization, the Ulster Volunteer Force, and officers under the command of Sir Ronald Fortunately Sir Ronnie can't endanger any lives through his incompetence, though he's doubtless picking up more gongs and pensions following his previous stinbts as Strategic Adviser to the Abu Dhabi Police Force, a consultant to policing in occupied Iraq, and other tidy little earners. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 23, 2016 14:15:22 GMT
Hhs, Excellent reporting. We return to the establishment and vested interests. The last thing required is a highly competent, rottweiler who goes digging in the dirt to purposefully uncover the truth. Ronnie F, Chris Commode (just can't resist... again!) and no doubt all the others who head so-called sporting anti-corruption and 'integrity Units' are picked for a reason. They are timid puppets, happy to toe the corrupt line, whether wittingly or unwittingly, where 'shallow' and do as 'little digging as possible' is the watchword. No wonder Ed Hawkins pulls his hair out in utter frustration. He'll be bald shortly! My TaleI first met the ECBs Anti-Corruption Unit Head, Chris Watts, at Hove. By coincidence we met in the Media Centre during a CB40 match against Yorkshire. At the time, the ECB were in the middle of their 'love/hate relationship with 'The Daily Telegraph' and it was a 'luv' period, so Nick Hoult, their then up and rising young cricket writer, had been given exclusive access only. Serendipity, allowed Chris to sit next to me. I immediately recognised him from his media shots and we began talking, quietly, much to the irritation of Chris Waters from the 'Yorkshire Post' who hadn't slept for 48 hours and then had a paddy accusing us of treating the media centre like a cafe. We walked outside to continue our chat. Now, my point. Chris, a former senior detective with the Metropolitan Police Force, had recently been appointed, was finding his feet, and was happy to chat about his job. While he was tactful about his initial findings, he opened up about the difficulties he faced and we got on really well. (Of course the sweetest irony being, I later discovered, he was about to visit Dave Brooks to discuss further the information given to him by Ed Hawkins that Sussex had been involved with a 'certain match-fixing game' concerning two overseas club cricketers!) After our chat was over, I wrote up a piece and sent it to the ECB media office as a sign of good faith. To my amazement, even the most innocent of sentences was given the red ink treatment. What transpired was a very watered-down version which appeared in the now defunct 'Spin-Off' on-line magazine. Over 50% of the original had been erased. www.spinoffcricket.com/chris-watts-head-of-the-ecb-anti-corruption-unit/Chris Watts is not a Ronnie or a Kermode. He is a very competent, very active investigator. His passion and desire for finding the perpetrators was obvious to hear but even the ECB were concerned about what Chris might uncover. As time went on, a media strait-jacket was placed around Watts by the Board. To the extent that a Google search shows no press about him for 2015 - the last being in May 2014 when the whole Arif and Vincent scandal erupted followed in August when Watts gave an exclusive to 'The Cricket Paper' that during the 2nd ODI England v India, a spectator had been ejected for suspicious activity with a mobile phone. www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2014/content/story/775121.htmlToday, I would suggest, Watts has been gagged by the ECB, for being too good at his job. So, there you have it. Bumbling, incompetent puppets are encouraged and give long superficial interviews. Highly competent rottweilers are gagged and tightly controlled by their bosses in case they discover too much. A classic example of the establishment taking care of the status quo. PS: Anyone living in Guernsey may be interested in this. www.guernseycricket.com/uploads/documents/Conference_Information_Booklet_2016.pdf |
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 25, 2016 7:17:28 GMT
Sporting bodies are particularly prone to this kind of ethical shilly-shallying, hiding behind the shelter of the brand, the prestige and the desperate urgency to keep the sponsors happy and their money rolling in. It suited them to present the image of the old amateur style, the "great tradition" and the boardroom with the silver cups and shields, the debenture seats and blazers rampant when they came to market and did business with the sporting goods companies. Adidas, Nike, Sports Direct and all the others could bask a little in the walnut glow of the clubhouse furnishings, putting another barrier up themselves from unwelcome investigation into their unsavoury child-exploitation in Asian factories, whilst the old buffers could pretend that they had improved their sport and their own stewardship by successful alliance with modern marketing. In practice one set of pimps was handing over the keys of the brothel to a younger, meaner mob and protesting that they had no involvement in this shameless trade in flesh. And , lo and behold, the pimps are now holding up their hands in horror,protesting loudly that their reputation cannot be besmirched by linking it with such an establishment that trades in filth! "Adidas to end IAAF sponsorship deal early in wake of doping crisis"www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/35385415 |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 26, 2016 9:47:11 GMT
Finally, the ICC show some teeth but the cynics might argue Bodi is little more than a patsy - a few crumbs thrown to the public to keep them happy. Rather like the drug barons who purposefully tip off customs about one of their in-transit mules. It keeps the status quo balance. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35402310 |
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Post by leedsgull on Jan 26, 2016 10:12:09 GMT
At least the South Africans should be congratulated on the speed with which this matter has been concluded. The offence only happened in December and punishment has already been administered. It seems to take years elsewhere.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 27, 2016 9:36:47 GMT
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