A look at the cheating scandal that rocked Indian and world Cricket circles when it was discovered that bookies were paying players and whole teams to alter the outcome of matches.
I don’t really understand Cricket. I have a vague understanding, but not enough that I can watch it and fully understand what is happening in a match. I’ve been told that if I had been raised watching the game I would have caught the disease that would have turned it into an obsession. In India and many other parts of the world it is an obsession.
Caught Out Crime Corruption and Cricket is the story of the betrayal of that obsession. It’s the story of how bookies gave players lots of money, not always throwing matches but to manipulate the point spreads so that things came out favorably to the bookies. How bad was it? One person is heard to testify that he could find out any match was going to turn out well in advance of it being played. It’s a heart breaker that will make you think that the sport was being run by the folks at professional wrestling.
The film follows several journalists as they stumble on the story and try to report it. At first it’s a small scale story that rattle some cages before disappearing, and then it came roaring back with a vengeance and engulfed the whole sport.
While the film could have given us a bit more detail on some of the bad guys, I was still enthralled. This was a look into a world I knew nothing about. It was also a look into the bad things that some people will do to make a buck. I kept wondering if this sort of thing is happening at all in any of the American sports leagues, especially now that that sports betting is now an okay thing.
Recommended.
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