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by **Rodney Ulyat** » Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:18:34

Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed) as having been associated with
cricket's greatest blight:

William Lambert
Ted Pooley
George Ulyett
John Selby
Herby Collins
Shane Warne
Mark Waugh
Salim Malik
Ata-ur-Rehman
Mohammad Azharuddin
Ajay Sharma
Manoj Prabhakar
Ajay Jadeja
Hansie Cronje
Herschelle Gibbs
Nicky Boje
Pieter Strydom
Henry Williams
Maurice Odumbe
Marlon Samuels

Silver Billy Beldham, of the early Eigh***th Century, rejected numerous
bribes but tells us that many of his contemporaries didn't. Ricky
Ponting, Adam Hollioake and Dougie Brown also claim to have been approached.

Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
hard cash."

--
Rodney Ulyate

"The mincing run-up resembles someone in high heels and a panty girdle
chasing after a bus."
Martin Johnson on Merv Hughes

by **Rodney Ulyat** » Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:24:08

I belched:

Quote:

> Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed as) having been associated with
> cricket's greatest blight:

[...]

Typo fixed.

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R.A. Fitzgerald

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by **vdeolali..** » Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:30:31

Quote:

> Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed) as having been associated with
> cricket's greatest blight:

> William Lambert
> Ted Pooley
> George Ulyett
> John Selby
> Herby Collins
> Shane Warne
> Mark Waugh
> Salim Malik
> Ata-ur-Rehman
> Mohammad Azharuddin
> Ajay Sharma
> Manoj Prabhakar
> Ajay Jadeja
> Hansie Cronje
> Herschelle Gibbs
> Nicky Boje
> Pieter Strydom
> Henry Williams
> Maurice Odumbe
> Marlon Samuels

> Silver Billy Beldham, of the early Eigh***th Century, rejected numerous
> bribes but tells us that many of his contemporaries didn't. Ricky
> Ponting, Adam Hollioake and Dougie Brown also claim to have been approached.

> Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
> career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
> hard cash."

> --
> Rodney Ulyate

> "The mincing run-up resembles someone in high heels and a panty girdle
> chasing after a bus."
> ? ? ? ? Martin Johnson on Merv Hughes

I guess it would depend on how exactly you define "accused". For
instance, not all the implicated in the Qayyum commission report are
in your list. Only the two who were handed life bans are. As an
example - the commission fined Akram, and recommended that he never be
allowed to captain Pakistan and Justice Qayyum said that he had been
"lenient towards one of two of them" (referring to the list of
implicated).
http://SportToday.org/

However, full marks to Pakistan for instituting this commission, and
for making its findings public. That took some courage, which I
respect.

by **Yorke** » Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:05:50

Quote:

> Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed) as having been associated
> with cricket's greatest blight:

> William Lambert
> Ted Pooley
> George Ulyett
> John Selby
> Herby Collins
> Shane Warne
> Mark Waugh
> Salim Malik
> Ata-ur-Rehman
> Mohammad Azharuddin
> Ajay Sharma
> Manoj Prabhakar
> Ajay Jadeja
> Hansie Cronje
> Herschelle Gibbs
> Nicky Boje
> Pieter Strydom
> Henry Williams
> Maurice Odumbe
> Marlon Samuels

> Silver Billy Beldham, of the early Eigh***th Century, rejected
> numerous bribes but tells us that many of his contemporaries didn't.
> Ricky Ponting, Adam Hollioake and Dougie Brown also claim to have been
> approached.

> Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
> career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
> hard cash."

Kapil Dev is not on the list, neither is Wasim Akram, kingpins of betting.

by **outsourcingbusin..** » Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:24:31

Quote:

> Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed) as having been associated with
> cricket's greatest blight:

> William Lambert
> Ted Pooley
> George Ulyett
> John Selby
> Herby Collins
> Shane Warne
> Mark Waugh
> Salim Malik
> Ata-ur-Rehman
> Mohammad Azharuddin
> Ajay Sharma
> Manoj Prabhakar
> Ajay Jadeja
> Hansie Cronje
> Herschelle Gibbs
> Nicky Boje
> Pieter Strydom
> Henry Williams
> Maurice Odumbe
> Marlon Samuels

Out of all of the above the one who made the most money was
Azharuddin. He has been reported to have made nothing less than 100
million dollars over the years. The figure could be much higher.

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Quote:

> Silver Billy Beldham, of the early Eigh***th Century, rejected numerous
> bribes but tells us that many of his contemporaries didn't. Ricky
> Ponting, Adam Hollioake and Dougie Brown also claim to have been approached.

> Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
> career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
> hard cash."

> --
> Rodney Ulyate

> "The mincing run-up resembles someone in high heels and a panty girdle
> chasing after a bus."
> ? ? ? ? Martin Johnson on Merv Hughes

by **Bob Duber** » Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:16:03

Quote:

> Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed) as having been associated with
> cricket's greatest blight:

> William Lambert
> Ted Pooley
> George Ulyett
> John Selby
> Herby Collins
> Shane Warne
> Mark Waugh
> Salim Malik
> Ata-ur-Rehman
> Mohammad Azharuddin
> Ajay Sharma
> Manoj Prabhakar
> Ajay Jadeja
> Hansie Cronje
> Herschelle Gibbs
> Nicky Boje
> Pieter Strydom
> Henry Williams
> Maurice Odumbe
> Marlon Samuels

> Silver Billy Beldham, of the early Eigh***th Century, rejected numerous
> bribes but tells us that many of his contemporaries didn't. Ricky
> Ponting, Adam Hollioake and Dougie Brown also claim to have been approached.

> Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
> career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
> hard cash."

But that would have been a comment on his shamateurism. There weren't
suggestions that the great man had thrown a match for personal gain.

I think that we can leave Boje out of things now. There's nothing to
show that he did anything untowards - his name was dropped by Cronje
but that's all. You've omitted Lillee and Marsh, even though they had
bet against their own team, so you can surely exclude Boje.

A bit unfair on Warne and Waugh as well - there was no suggestion that
they had tried to manipulate the results of a match or to underperform.

by **eusebiu** » Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:02:07

Quote:

> > Names accused of (or, indeed, confirmed) as having been associated with
> > cricket's greatest blight:

> > William Lambert
> > Ted Pooley
> > George Ulyett
> > John Selby
> > Herby Collins
> > Shane Warne
> > Mark Waugh
> > Salim Malik
> > Ata-ur-Rehman
> > Mohammad Azharuddin
> > Ajay Sharma
> > Manoj Prabhakar
> > Ajay Jadeja
> > Hansie Cronje
> > Herschelle Gibbs
> > Nicky Boje
> > Pieter Strydom
> > Henry Williams
> > Maurice Odumbe
> > Marlon Samuels

> > Silver Billy Beldham, of the early Eigh***th Century, rejected numerous
> > bribes but tells us that many of his contemporaries didn't. Ricky
> > Ponting, Adam Hollioake and Dougie Brown also claim to have been approached.

> > Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
> > career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
> > hard cash."

> > --
> > Rodney Ulyate

> > "The mincing run-up resembles someone in high heels and a panty girdle
> > chasing after a bus."
> > ? ? ? ? Martin Johnson on Merv Hughes

> I guess it would depend on how exactly ?you define "accused". For
> instance, not all the implicated in the Qayyum commission report are
> in your list. Only the two who were handed life bans are. As an
> example - the commission fined Akram, and recommended that he never be
> allowed to captain Pakistan and Justice Qayyum said that he had been
> "lenient towards one of two of them" (referring to the list of
> implicated).http://SportToday.org/

I suppose Moin Khan, Inzamam, Waqar, were amongst that number. Also
Mushtaq Mohammad (well, I suppose he wasn't a current player involved
in match fixing).
Didn't Sarfraz Nawaz say that this sort of thing was rife in his day?

by **Rodney Ulyat** » Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:27:06

Bob Dubery pointed out:

Quote:

[...]
>> Wisden, rather worryingly, said once of W.G.: "He was, throughout his
>> career, quite breathtakingly grasping when his eye caught the glint of
>> hard cash."
> But that would have been a comment on his shamateurism. There weren't
> suggestions that the great man had thrown a match for personal gain.

I agree that winning meant far too much to Grace (more, certainly, than
the copious mullah he picked up on the side) to lose deliberately, but I
couldn't resist offering the bait, knowing as I did that someone would bite.

Quote:

> I think that we can leave Boje out of things now. There's nothing to
> show that he did anything untowards - his name was dropped by Cronje
> but that's all. You've omitted Lillee and Marsh, even though they had
> bet against their own team, so you can surely exclude Boje.
> A bit unfair on Warne and Waugh as well - there was no suggestion that
> they had tried to manipulate the results of a match or to underperform.

It was a quickly-compiled list, and not so much a case of "these blokes
might've done it" as "these blokes were alleged to have done it".

--
Rodney Ulyate

"It is probable that no atheist was ever a good cricketer."
Harry East

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