Match Fixing In Sport

'A cancer'

The rapid growth of modern-day technology, coupled with the boom of the gambling industry (particularly on online platforms) and the globalisation of live sports broadcasting, has given rise to the 'international phenomenon' of match fixing, and an increased fear for the integrity of sports.

Described by the English and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) Disciplinary Panel as 'a cancer that eats at the health and very existence of the game', match fixing is detrimental to the sport and governing body in question, and has continuing repercussions.

With huge sums of money being pumped into many sports, they have now become big business. And, in the same way we have seen the lure of the illegal practice of insider trading, so too have we seen the appeal of easy and lucrative money applied to the world of sport through organised crime.