Making_Splinters wrote:clubcricketeradi wrote:Making_Splinters wrote:clubcricketeradi wrote:I am surprised that Warne was in contention for that award.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/1998/ ... 97968.html
Two of Australia's greatest cricketers - bowler Shane Warne and batsman Mark Waugh - have been involved in a betting scandal that has plunged the game into of one of its greatest crises of the modern era.
The Australian Cricket Board confirmed last night that it had fined Waugh and Warne for providing information to an Indian bookmaker during Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 1994.
Slightly overstated.
Personally i don't like players who maintain a contact with bookies. I hope that what i read is not true.
It's completely true, however, to describe it as one of the greatest crises of the modern era is hyperbole.
Yes, i agree that worse things in that criteria have happened in cricket.Especially the spot fixing in test series in England (Salman/Asif/Amir) where they did more than passing information to bookies, IPL spot fixing and some reported match fixing etc.