Rajasthan Royals
22 July 2015
Raj Kundra, co-owner of Rajasthan Royals and husband of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, was banned for life from cricket for his involvement in betting during IPL 2013.
Chennai Super Kings
24 May 2013
Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI president N. Srinivasan and team principal of Chennai Super Kings, was arrested for betting on IPL matches.
England in New Zealand
1877-02-13
Ted Pooley, the Surrey wicketkeeper and acknowledged best gloveman in England, missed the first Test in March 1877 because he was sitting in a Christchurch jail. He had been arrested after a betting dispute at the Carlton Hotel turned into an assault charge. By the time he was acquitted, the tour had sailed for Sydney and the first Test had been lost.
Various
1852-01-01
Through the first half of the nineteenth century gambling on cricket had been endemic — matches were arranged with betting as the primary purpose, and some were fixed to ensure the desired result. By the 1850s the gambling culture had declined sharply under Victorian moral pressure, the rise of professional touring cricket and the growing influence of the MCC, which increasingly discouraged wagering at Lord's. The 1850s were the decade in which cricket gambling moved from mainstream to disreputable.
Various
1846-09-15
Single-wicket cricket — an older form of the game in which two or three players a side competed under simplified rules, often for purses of £100 or more — flourished alongside the modern eleven-a-side game through the 1840s. Alfred Mynn was champion of England at single-wicket from 1838 to 1846 and his title-defence matches drew crowds and betting comparable with the Gentlemen v Players match.
Gentlemen of England vs Players of England
1819-07-08
After a thirteen-year gap forced by the Napoleonic War, the Gentlemen v Players match was revived at Lord's on 7-9 July 1819. The amateurs played the professionals on equal terms — eleven a side, no odds — and the Players won by six wickets. Lord Strathavon, a sponsor of the Players, captained them in person, apparently because he had placed a bet on his side and wanted to be sure of his money. The 1819 revival began the unbroken run of the fixture that would last until 1962.
n/a
1807-05-13
In May 1807 the MCC committee — alarmed by the runaway side-betting that had attached to single-wicket and county matches through the early 1800s — passed a resolution capping the principal stake on any MCC-arranged major match at 500 guineas. The rule did not stop side betting in the gallery, but it cut the headline stakes on the central fixtures sharply and is the first MCC regulation explicitly aimed at reducing betting influence on major cricket.
Beauclerk vs Beldham
1806-06-09
On 9 June 1806 Lord Frederick Beauclerk — Regency cricket's swaggering amateur — challenged William Beldham, the most respected professional in the country, to a single-wicket match for stakes of 50 guineas. The match was played in front of a paying Lord's crowd. Beauclerk won by twelve runs, helped by a much-debated stumping decision against Beldham in the first innings. The contest is one of the great single-wicket fixtures of the period.