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Who is more responsible for Match/Spot Fixing? Cricket Players or Bookies or Us?

• Who is more responsible? 1. Cricketers who take Money and Plan matches and play with people's cricket sentiments 2. Bookies who fix matches to make money as they can't predict outcome of match and they need to earn money for their family 3. Us, who in the greed of more money bet money in betting circuits Because of 3rd's desires--> 2nd Exist ---> Because of 2nd's desires 3rd's greed is aroused and quenched If we are responsible on the grass root level why do we blame players for fixing matches!! Just because we lost the BET...!! Anyhow you got the entertainment whether the match was fixed or not!! Why Cricket is more than entertainment these days? Is this because of Media Sentimentalization? Answer!!!

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  Which profession pays you for under-performing? Undoubtedly it is cricket.  You drop few catches, get hit out of the park and you stand a chance to  be a billionaire; alluring it is!! Who would not fall for it? Exactly!!  BCCI says these are the three rotten eggs-S  Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila; rest is all hunky dory. Are  you kidding me? 9 teams, 250 players, billions of dollars at stake in  betting, chance for easy money; and you want us to believe that these  three were the chosen ones. You leave three rotten eggs in a basket for  six springs and the entire basket stinks. This is just the tip of the  iceberg. Many new faces are yet to be unmasked. BCCI needs to shun this  damage control mode, damage has already been done. What it needs to do  is to identify the lapses on its part and own up the responsibility. Mr Sreesanth, You were slapped once and I empathized. But today I feel like slapping  you hard, slapping a billion times for cheating a billion fans of  cricket in India.  Ankeet Chavan, You ruined your own marriage scheduled just a fortnight  from now. Even if you needed this money to pay dowry to bride's family,  you are still a culprit as dowry is strictly illegal in India. Ajit Chandila,  you might not have been slapped before, but you truly deserve one. Your act has shamed us all. In India, cricket is a religion and cricketers are no less than God. You  have unscrupulously betrayed us and robbed us of our trust and  expectation. I have paid over Rs 4000 to watch IPL matches this season,  and it truly infuriates me to realize that what I saw was a pre-scripted  sequence of events. 50 days, 76 matches, each match going till the  last over- what else could a bookie ask for. IPL provides a fertile  breeding ground for corruption and spot fixing. This added with the poor  governance and monitoring runs havoc. In a match of 100 odd balls,  every ball, every over counts. So one compromised over can change the  outcome of the game. Hence let's be clear that it is not just spot  fixing but a clear case of match fixing. Delhi police has revealed how  these insolent players used codes to signal a compromised over.  Sreesanth tugged a towel during second over of his spell in a match,  signaling the compromised over. In a match  of Rajasthan Royals Vs Mumbai Indians,  Chavan was asked to give away atleast 13 runs in 2nd over of his spell  in lieu of Rs 60 lakhs. He gave 2 runs in the his 1st over. But was hit  for 2 sixes in the first half of the next over. Overall he gave away 15  runs. Today, we know how susceptible Indian cricket is. How cricket is directly controlled by bookies and underworld mafia like the one-whose-name-should-not-be-taken(Dawood  bhai :P). But is there a way out? What would happen in this case? These  players face the danger of being banned from cricket for life. This is  what has happened to Azharuddin, Hansie Cronje and TP Sudhindra. S Sreesanth is already 30, and so is Ajit Chandila. Do  they still give a damn to life ban? They hardly have any cricket left,  few years of fixing would have given them more money than lifetime of  cricketing career. Clearly, life-ban is just an eyewash and is not  deterrent enough. This leads to snowball effect. As these three would  get away without any criminal charge, encouraging other fellow players  to follow suit. Once upon a time, it was called Gentleman's game.  Gone are the days when players used to take pride in representing their  country or state. Everything has boiled down to money. Since players  have lost the fear of God, fear of punishment can only save the cricket.  Its time to recognize match fixing as an criminal offense globally and  explore punishments beyond life-ban. If TP Sudhindra was jailed, likes  of Sreesanth would never have dared. If Sreesanth is let free, many more  fixers would crop-up.