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![]() My biggest issue with The Fix by Omar Shahid Hamid is that for fairly obvious reasons, he chose to write about fixing in women’s cricket instead. This is a scenario ripe for picking, for match-fixing. It is so meticulous that you may bet on every possible aspect of the game: who will win the toss, which bowler will get the final wicket, how exactly a specific batsman will go out, even on the outcomes per over of the match. Like all billion-dollar global sports, cricket has been marred by the imputation of match-fixing.įirstly, there is an almost parallel economy-sized gambling industry that feeds off the craziest fans. And while most stories around cricket are heart-warming to its acolytes, there is a terrible monster it hides that rears its ugly head often. Unlike the rest of the world, the opium of the masses in the Indian sub-continental spread is a quasi-religion called cricket.
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