Fixing Cricket
How far does corruption go in the world of cricket?
Can we believe cricket's bosses when they promise to rid the game of corruption? This is the question at the epicentre of the match-fixing storm. We go in search of the answer in bookie dens and on cricket fields in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Dubai, South Africa and England.
Meet illegal bookmakers and their middlemen - and the players they're accused of bribing. Meet the whistleblowers and government officials who are being victimised for speaking out. "If the game becomes tainted and big names become tainted, less money will flow in - the sponsors will withdraw... This was one of the important reasons for not looking into the matter", Majid Khan, former manager of Pakistan's cricket team.
This investigative documentary features interviews with a virtual "Who's Who" of cricket and explores how the sub-continental culture of gambling has infected the cricket world. "For a while it seemed that only Pakistan was involved. Now... it's clearly a universal problem", says Imran Khan. With such vast sums of money at stake, is the corruption simply too big to be stopped?
Produced by ABC Australia
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