Betting should be legalized in India, says Geoffrey Boycott

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India should legalize betting if they want to put an end to corruption in cricket and thus curb the ongoing menace, according to Geoffrey Boycott. The 72-year-old former England cricketer has also believes that such issues seem to emerge more commonly in Asian countries.

Boycott told ESPN Cricinfo: “The way to stop it altogether, except for the odd one — but we’re getting too many at the minute — is this business of making betting legal in India. It’s illegal, so people do it.”

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“When beer was illegal in America during prohibition, you had all this illegal drinking and all these mafia-type people and so forth involved. And so you’ll get the worst type of society involved in betting, from the bookies and that sort of people, when you have something that people want to do but it’s illegal.”

“Many people have suggested to the Indian government that making betting legal at cricket, like it’s legal in horse-racing and so on, would stamp most of it [corruption] out,” he said.

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However, Geoffrey admitted that it would be very difficult to convince the government of India to take such action.

“But you know what it’s like. Trying to explain to the Indian government, they think you are telling them something, they don’t like it and they don’t like to change,” he added.

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