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How mid-day covered the India vs South Africa match-fixing scandal in 2000

Updated on: 25 May,2025 09:58 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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The turn of the millennium was a tough time for cricket reporters, who at times wondered whether they were on the crime beat!

How mid-day covered the India vs South Africa match-fixing scandal in 2000

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The BCCI has just banned Nayan Mongia and others. We go to the W Railway ground in Mahalaxmi to seek a reaction from the India wicket-keeper who is playing an inter-office game. We see his cheerful side at first and then his anguish

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This paper goes big with the Tehelka tapes story. A good amount of pages are allotted for transcripts of interviews done through a spy cam. This is Ravi Shastri unplugged


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Opinions fly thick and fast in a controversy. So we asked the experts, the ex-Test players what do they think about India still picking players who are accused in the match-fixng controversyOpinions fly thick and fast in a controversy. So we asked the experts, the ex-Test players what do they think about India still picking players who are accused in the match-fixng controversy

Manoj Prabhakar tells ex-BCCI president Indrajit Singh Bindra that it was Kapil Dev who offered him Rs 25 lakh to underperform in 1994. Our UK writer files a story about how Kapil Dev reacted to the allegation on UK Radio while batting legend Sunil Gavaskar, as the headline says, is stumpedManoj Prabhakar tells ex-BCCI president Indrajit Singh Bindra that it was Kapil Dev who offered him Rs 25 lakh to underperform in 1994. Our UK writer files a story about how Kapil Dev reacted to the allegation on UK Radio while batting legend Sunil Gavaskar, as the headline says, is stumped

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