Cricket South Africa (CSA) banned former Proteas fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe for eight years on Tuesday over match fixing in a 2015 T20 Challenge Series. The body confirmed in a statement Tsotsobe, 33, had admitted to contravening the anti-corruption code and “has been banned for eight years”. Tsotsobe initially denied involvement in the fixing, and … Read more
Islamabad United coach Dean Jones on Wednesday testified at a tribunal hearing spot-fixing charges against Sharjeel Khan, saying two dot balls played by the batsman during a Pakistan Super League match were not suspicious from a cricketing perspective. The allegation relates to a match played between Islamabad United and Peshawar Zalmi held in Dubai in … Read more
Former Australian Open junior champion Oliver Anderson was fined Aus$500 (US$374) Tuesday for fixing a match, but escaped a conviction after admitting he threw a set, reports said. The 19-year-old Australian appeared in the Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court over the incident during a first-round clash at the second-tier Traralgon Challenger event in Victoria in 2016. … Read more
Nottingham Forest have been bought by Greek shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis after his takeover was passed by the English Football League (EFL). The businessman and Olympiakos owner is facing accusations of match-fixing in Greece but has passed the EFL’s owners’ and directors’ test. Marinakis’ buyout brings to an end Fawaz Al Hasawi’s five-year reign in … Read more
Australia’s harness racing industry, known as the trots, was Friday rocked by fixing allegations as police charged a trainer and flagged further arrests in what they described as a systemic practice. Queensland state police said the 46-year-old man, who was not named, was charged with one count of match-fixing after a 10-month “protracted investigation… into … Read more
Pakistan batsman Khalid Latif will contest spot-fixing charges against him, his lawyer said Friday, in an ongoing scandal which has tainted Pakistani cricket and threatened years of work to clean up the country’s image. The 31-year-old is one of five players under investigation in the case, which surfaced during the Pakistan Super League (PSL) held … Read more
Ghanaian referee is Joseph Lamptey is facing serious allegations within FIFA quarters as claims are rife that he was influenced by betting syndicates to force the outcome of South Africa’s win over Senegal. The 42-year-old referee‚ whose father was also a FIFA match official and later a president of the Ghana Football Association‚ had been … Read more
FIFA legal experts are meeting on Thursday to examine their regulations to decide whether South Africa’s World Cup qualifier against Senegal should be replayed after the Ghanaian referee was found guilty of fixing the outcome of the game‚ Fifa insiders told Business Day. Shock waves reverberated at the start of the week, when Fifa said … Read more
Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey‚ who is at the centre of a match fixing scandal involving Bafana Bafana‚ has a long history of controversial decisions‚ some of which will now be much more closely examined in the wake of his being handed a lifetime ban. Lamptey was on Monday banished from the sport by FIFA for … Read more
The Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, Ibrahim Saanie Daara, has dared anyone who has evidence of match-fixing in the ongoing Ghana Premier League (GPL) to come forward or remain silent on the matter. The GPL over the years has been hit with match-fixing allegations, but officials of clubs have consistently failed to tender … Read more