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Betting In Gentlemen’s Game: Cricket
Cricket is a game played between two teams, each comprising of eleven players in a field radius of around 75 meters. The pitch is 22 yard long with wickets on either side. The batting side tries to score runs by hitting the ball and running between the wickets, or hitting the ball to the fence or over the fence. The bowling side tries to bowl out the batsman by a number of ways namely, clean bowl, catching the ball, running out etc. The team making more runs is adjudged to be the winner. There are now many variations such as five day matches with two innings each, one day matches of 50 over each and 20-20 matches. This sport originated from England in the 16th.century and is now being played in many countries.
The game of Cricket is known as the game of gentlemen. But, sports betting almost overpowered the ethics of this sport. The game of Cricket is gaining popularity because there are several probabilities and speculations associated with this. The foremost being the existing form of the players, the toss, the pitch, the weather and lately the integrity of players and umpires. As such, there is ample ground for turning this game into a game of betting.
The bookmakers prefer the spread betting for wagering. A range of end results forms the spread regimen. The more accurate is the wager, the more pay-off he can expect. The risk level is usually high with considerable gains or losses. UK has regulated spread waging.
Cricket betting has turned out to be a billion dollar business all over the world. Information technology has made the access to such betting very easy. With huge money involved, match fixing by bribing some of the key players is on the rise. Even captains of the national teams such as Hansjie Cronje of South Africa and Md. Azuriddin of India have been penalized for accepting money for losing the game.
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