Essay: Match Fixing in Cricket

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Essay: Match Fixing in Cricket Cricket has also been subjected as the cause behind corruption. The corrupted teams that lack the resources and that are being less paid by their governments would do the match fixing. Match fixing is actually a deal in which the team decides to get an amount of money by the opponents to lose the match. It is mostly said that the team which is poor is more likely to make deals as match fixing. That is why it has been said that money and power matters in sport. Even common people bet on the matches. This sort of gamble is almost a business which is being run all around the world. This gambling helps people in making lots of money. This makes some of the people loose big amount of money that they put on stakes. This affects the society as a common man is considered to be the basic element of a society (Sharma, 2002). The society which regards the sport such as cricket as most important would put money on the training and all the facilities which should be provided to the team. The team with fewer resources might leg behind other teams. Training needs to empower the team with motivation, commitment and dedication to the sportsmen spirit. The countries need to provide enough sources to the team for training them at higher standards. Sports have impacts on media as well. Different channels buy the sponsorship of the transmissions of the matches during world cup and for other championship series of cricket. Moreover the advertising also gets the mass audience exposure during cricket match series. The cricket match series would be the highlight of the channels every day. Transmissions are purely dedicated to the series for long hours which include the shows in which the senior players or cricket coaches would be having a discussion regarding the performance of the team. These talk shows are then sponsored by a great deal of sponsors. In
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