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Listing ID: 988
Title: Eye On Cricket
Description: The world of cricket, as seen from Brooklyn.
Category: Recreation : Sports : Cricket
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listed on: June 12, 2008 08:08:15 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Cricket without balls: Tariq Ali on Pakistani cricket - Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:01:00 +0000 |
Tariq Ali is always an entertaining read (especially when he is writing about the Bhutto family).Here he turns his attention to Pakistani cricket. |
| Spot-fixing and the slippery slope - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:53:00 +0000 |
Responding to my post on spot-fixing at Different Strokes, my friend David Coady (at the University of Tasmania) pointed out a little side-effect I hadn't thought about:Seems to me the problem with spot-fixing is that once you've done it once, [you are in] the book-maker's power and have to go along with whatever he proposes, since he's in a position to blackmail you. Police get into a similar position when they accept small gifts from 'grateful' citizens.  |
| The allure of spot-fixing - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:24:00 +0000 |
My take on why spot-fixing is as bad as any other kind of fixing is up at Different Strokes. |