5 Infamous Match Fixing incidents in Cricket

2) Spot fixing by Pakistan players on their England tour in 2010

Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salmann Butt were implicated in a spot fixing incident where all these players had taken money from a bookie called Mazhar Majeed to underperform during certain times during the Test match against England at Lord’s

In a sting operation by News of the World, Mazhar Majeed revealed that he had indeed paid these three players a certain sum of money to underperform and quoted the exact times when Asif and Amir would be bowling no balls. Salman Butt was also implicated as Majeed was even caught revealing the exact over when such a thing would be happening, implying that even Butt was involved.

On further investigation, all three of them were found guilty and were banned from playing cricket.

This incident revealed the dark side of bookies affecting situations in the game and how they were targeting both young and experienced players to make bucket loads of money.