Time to put up or shut up over Munawar spot-fixing allegations | Vic Marks
Every time the al-Jazeera documentary seems to be getting to the nitty-gritty the names of those claimed to be conniving with cricket’s spot-fixers are withheldThe most recent al-Jazeera documentary on spot-fixing in cricket is to be welcomed but it remains a source of frustration as well. The scope to manipulate a game of cricket for betting purposes has been with us for two centuries or more and any reminder of that is a useful deterrent. But we crave more hard facts than the “unsupported allegations” referred to by David Leatherdale, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association who confirmed on Monday “the [English] players refute all allegations and have the full support of the PCA”.This latest documentary expands on...