Fake Indian cricket league scam highlights perils of black-market betting
While England’s Test team readjust to the red ball game and the biff-bash version of limited-over cricket provides lucrative employment around the world, a scene reminiscent of a Carry On film has been played out in the Indian courts, but the implications are not funny.
The events provide a warning of what may happen if extreme measures in the forthcoming government gambling review provoke a mass exodus to black-market betting.
The ambitiously named Indian Premier Cricket League, which at face value mirrored the better-known Indian Premier League, had reached its quarter-final knockout stage last month before police in the Mehsana district of Gujarat, western India, uncovered an elaborate hoax with a criminal intent focused on punters in Russia.
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