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Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A journey to the corrupt heart of cricket betting
Wed, July 03 2013
Playing by the bookmaker
Over the past two months, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was rocked by scandals of illegal betting, match-fixing, spot-fixing and conflicts of interest. IPL team owners, players, umpires and cricket administrators were accused of being involved with the betting syndicates. But what went unnoticed was that these issues had been highlighted last year in a book — Bookie, Gambler, Fixer, Spy: A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld — written by Ed Hawkins.