ABSTRACT

It is one of the greatest tragedies of contemporary cricket that not a few see everything that happens on the cricket field through tinted or tainted glasses. The bogey of match-fixing, which shocked cricket fans out of their skins in the year 2000, has stopped them from enjoying a good game of cricket for what it is. It lurks at the back of the mind when they watch or analyse a game, particularly when it involves India or Pakistan or Sri Lanka or is played on the subcontinent.1