#2000

3 incidents tagged

Delhi Police Tap a Phone — How the Cronje Scandal Broke, April 2000

South Africa vs India

2000-04-07

On April 7, 2000, the Delhi police Crime Branch announced they had recordings of South African captain Hansie Cronje discussing match-fixing arrangements with London-based Indian bookmaker Sanjeev Chawla. The wiretap had been placed for an extortion case unrelated to cricket. A police officer's son recognised Cronje's voice on a tape brought home — and the biggest scandal in cricket history began.

#hansie-cronje#south-africa#india

🚨Explosive

Mukesh 'MK' Gupta — The Bookmaker Who Talked to the CBI

Multiple — international

2000-11-01

Once a Syndicate Bank clerk in Delhi, Mukesh Kumar Gupta — alias 'MK' alias 'John' — became the most consequential bookmaker in cricket's match-fixing era. After Hansie Cronje named him in April 2000, Gupta walked into the Central Bureau of Investigation in Delhi, gave a detailed statement, and named Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Salim Malik, Mark Waugh, Shane Warne, Brian Lara, Aravinda de Silva and others as cricketers he had paid for information or under-performance.

#mukesh-gupta#mk#match-fixing

🚨Explosive

The Justice Qayyum Report — Pakistan's Match-Fixing Reckoning, May 2000

Pakistan

2000-05-23

Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum, a Lahore High Court judge, was appointed in September 1998 to investigate match-fixing allegations against the Pakistan team. Over 13 months he heard nearly 70 witnesses including Mark Taylor, Shane Warne, Tim May, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Salim Malik. The report was completed in October 1999 but only published on May 23, 2000 — banning Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman for life and fining Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Mushtaq Ahmed, Inzamam, Akram Raza and Saeed Anwar.

#pakistan#match-fixing#salim-malik