5 match fixing incidents that shocked cricket fans

#2 The Shane Warne-Mark Waugh saga

The Australian duo were involved in an incident way back in 1994

The Australian Cricket Board, ACB, after covering up the whole thing for close to four years, admitted two of its cult players, Mark Waugh and Shane Warne, had been paid by bookies to give information about the pitch during the Singer Cup in Sri Lanka in 1994.

The startling revelations had the cricketing community in shock and shattered the common belief that Australians are passionate cricket players. Warne and Waugh had claimed in 1995 that Pakistan batsman, Saleem Malik had offered them $200,000 to play poorly. Questions were raised everywhere as to why the ABC and the ICC, who knew of the incident, chose to keep it under wraps.

The bookie was alleged to be a "John" from Chennai. However, in India, rumours surrounded a powerful Delhi-based bookie, Mukesh. Another glaring coincidence was that Manoj Prabhakar had said that it was during this tournament that a teammate had offered him money to throw a match against Pakistan.

The story goes like this – a man approached Warne, who was pretty fond of gambling and offered him $5000 to spend at the gambling table. Later he innocuously asked for pitch information. In actual, Warne and Mark Waugh, who also took the bait for $6000, were being softened up for later benefits.

The duo were fined $8000 each for the offence but it became clearer to the world that match fixing is here to stay.