There have been hundreds of reports over the years in the Indian and British media that illegal betting, spot- and match-fixing in cricket are a barely covertly run industry worth billions of dollars. It is also known that the epicentre of this whole shameful business is India. Does anyone believe that the BCCI cares about this? Taking that argument even further, does anyone believe that if indeed there was spot-fixing going on in IPL games, it was limited to just three players in one team, which was never fancied to win the tournament, and these three players were not even part of the regular eleven? Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.