When did the sport fixing come and their culprit

 When did the sport fixing come and their culprit

After the spot-fixing revelations in the IPL, the game of Bhadrajans has once again come into the cricket dock. Although cricket is not as old as it is fixing. The first major case of fixing in cricket came up in 1994–95.

After this, there have been countless match-fixing cases. The biggest case Former Africa captain Hansie Cronje was involved . However, a few days after the case, Hansie Cronje left the world with his family in a private plane crash. A look at the match-fixing cases that have come so far.

For the first time in 1994, the then Pakistan captain Salim Malik was accused of fixing the match.

- During this tour of Pakistan to Australia, the players of the opposing team, Shane Warne and Mark Wa were accused of offering money to perform poorly.

After this, in 1996, Indian cricket manager Sunil Dev accused some Indian cricketers for demanding money for match-fixing.

In 1997, Indian cricketer Manoj Prabhakar was also asked to provide Rs 25 lakh to the players of the team for fixing during the 1994 match played in Sri Lanka.

In 1998, Pakistani bowler Ataur Rahman was accused of offering Wasim Akram USD 300,000 to bowl poorly against New Zealand.

It was only in 1998 that Pakistani cricketer Rashid Majid accused Wasim Akram, Salim Malik, Inzamam and Ejaz Ahmed for match-fixing.

In the same year, Australian cricketers Shane Warne and Mark Wa admitted that they had given weather and pitch information to an Indian bookie during the Singers Cup played in Sri Lanka in 1994. In lieu of this, he also accepted to take money.

- In 2000, Delhi Police accused South African cricketer Hansie Cronje of fixing his team in the one day match played against India.

- On April 11, 2000, Cronje admitted that he provided important information during the one-day series played in India.

On 24 May 2000, cricketer Manoj Prabhakar accused Kapil Dev that he was the one who told him to perform poorly against Pakistan in the match played in Sri Lanka in 1994.

- On 24 May 2000, a judicial inquiry committee of Pakistan confirmed former captain Malik Muhammad Qayum and bowler Ataur Rahman to be involved in fixing charges.

- June 2000: South African player Herschelle Gibbs admitted that one of his former captains had asked him to score less than 20 runs in a match played in India. He told the investigating committee that in return he was given 15,000 dollars.

- In June 2000, South African cricket chief Ali Bashir revealed that former Pakistan Cricket Board CEO Majid Khan has reported that two matches of the World Cup 1999 were already fixed.

- On June 15, 2000, Cronje stated that he had taken one million dollars for fixing in a match. But he denied that he had neither fixed nor arranged any match in exchange for this money.

- On 11 October 2000, Cronje was banned for life.

- On 27 November 2000, Indian cricketer Azharuddin was convicted on the fixing charges while Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Sharma and former Indian team physio Ali Irani were also confirmed to have links with bookies.

On 5 December 2000, Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma were banned for life.

- In August 2004, former Kenya captain Maurish Odenbe was banned for five years in a game. The former captain was found guilty of fixing money in several matches.

- In November 2004, former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming claimed that he was offered 37 thousand dollars by an Indian sports organizer for his poor performance in the World Cup played in 1999.

- On 13 May 2008, Marion Samuels was banned for two years. He was accused of taking money for fixing by an Indian bookie during the West Indies ODI series played in India in 2007.

- On May 15, 2010, Essex players Danish Kaneria and Marvin Westfield were arrested in connection with the investigation of fixing. But no charges could be framed against him.

In 2011, Pakistan players Salman Batt, Mohammad Aamir and Mohammad Asif were jailed in 2010 in the match-fixing case. While his agent Mazhar Majeed was jailed for two and a half years.