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Indian board seeks to criminalise match-fixing 'to protect cricket'
Khaleej Times
|October 24, 2025
Indian cricket authorities have petitioned the country's top court to make match-fixing a criminal offence in a bid to ramp up the pressure on illegal bookmakers and bent players.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the world’s richest cricket body, has argued to the Supreme Court that “the act of match-fixing constitutes a criminal offence”.
The BCCI said it had stepped up to protect the sport, in court documents seen by AFP on Thursday.
This story is from the October 24, 2025 edition of Khaleej Times.
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