Is it really such a noble sport?

Live a close relationship with the world of betting that goes back far into the past. As early as the seventeenth century, people were enthusiastically playing large amounts on the results of matches and, according to cricket journalist Malcolm Knox, the game was "an apology to bet." Wealthy patrons of cricket created teams to confront other sets in par- tidos in which there were forks in play, a situation that in 1664 led to the approval of a law on betting in England, with the objective of limiting the amounts that were They could bet on such encounters.

The players themselves have also been involved in this dark side of cricket. In recent years, a series of flogging scandals has shaken the sport. In 2000, the ex-captain of South Africa and national hero, Hansie Cronje, was suspended for life for accepting bribes over an amount of one hundred thousand dollars from a betting syndicate, in exchange for rigging matches and giving betting information. He would die in a plane crash in 2002. The Indian Mohammad Azharuddin received the same sanction. Then, in 2010, three players from the Pakistani national team, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were suspended and imprisoned for being involved in a plot of rigged matches, agreeing that they would make illegal pitches at previously agreed moments of the match. .