New match-fixing allegations mar IPL 10

The latest edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been marred by fresh allegation🅰s of match-fixing to manipulate th🤪e outcome of the matches.

The Uttar Pradesh police three bookmakers from a hotel in Kanpur where players of the Gujarat Lions and Daredevils team were also hosted. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) through a p﷽ress release had informed on Thursday that the Anti Corruption Unit of the BCCI had been tracking activities of these men before they were arrested.

The police has also stated that two Gujarat Lions cricketers in fixing matches. However, the malaise of fixing the outcomes of the games, or at least some part of the outcome is said to run deeper than what it appears. According💦 to , there might be other matches that could also come under the fixing scanner if investigated thoroughly.

In , a major spot-fixing💟 scandal had rocked IPL and the cricketing world, resulting in the banning of cricketers Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan for their alleged involvement in the scandal. Others associated with franchisees such as Raj Kundra and Guruanth Meiyappan were also banned from participating in any kind of cricketing activi꧃ties by the Supreme Court.

The Federation of Indian Chambers༒ of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and other expert bodies have indicated that legalising betting could be a solution to the problem of match-fixing and 🌌spot-fixing as legal betting would result in transparency on the punters involved in betting, source of funds of bettors and also allow law enforcement agencies to track suspicious betting patterns.