Lessons from Cricket; Another Indian Corruption Scandal  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8837 (May 2013), page 16.
Topik: Cricket; Professional Sports; Government; Corruption; Scandals; Organized Crime

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Every cricket season brings news of a fresh scam or intrigue including, on May 16th, the arrest of three cricketers and a dozen bookmakers for alleged match-fixing in the country's most popular domestic tournament, the Indian Premier League (IPL). Investigators in Delhi hint that the players were paid indirectly to underperform by the Mumbai gangsters who control much of India's enormous illegal gambling industry (betting on cricket is against the law in India). If they are right, the nexus between racketeers, bookmakers and greedy cricketers, exposed in 2000 in one of the biggest scandals in modern sport, remains in place. This would not be surprising: India's government and the men who run cricket there have done almost nothing to dismantle it. They are often the same people. In recent years politicians have flocked to join the Indian cricket board, which claims a monopoly on the game in India, and earns about $200m a year. Yet its rulers appear to spend more time jockeying for position than cleaning up the mess.

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