29-05-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com

False allegations can match real corruption in damaging cricket | Andy Bull

Loose claims in an al-Jazeera documentary have bundled three separate claims of malpractice into one, with some of the information coming from a self-proclaimed crookThe story goes that when the Australian Cricket Board knocked back Kerry Packer in 1976, Packer told them: “there’s a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen, so name your price”. That line came to mind early on in al-Jazeera’s new documentary, Cricket’s Match-Fixers, when its undercover journal
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