The fake league was given a name close enough to the real one: The Indian Cricket Premier League. “It was all hoaxes,” said Achal Tyagi, a top police official overseeing the investigation.

With a scruffy lot and an audacious sense of ambition, an Indian villager created—and broadcast!—a rigged cricket league to rip off online bettors. It looked small-time, but something bigger ...

The WTC final between winners South Africa and Australia highlighted the allure of the format as well as the home of the game ...

Set Up a Fake Cricket League. How to Scam Online-Gambling Addicts? ... which is typically played with a tennis ball and a bat and a little pile of rocks that serves as the wicket, in lieu of stumps.

India chose to bat first and gave a target of 185 runs to Bangladesh. ... Fake fielding in Cricket is defined as the “deliberate distraction, deception, or obstruction of batsman.” ...

If FIFA were to bring a similar fake fielding rule for all the fake injuries that simply waste time and spoil the flow and rhythm of the game then maybe we would have fewer such time stoppages.

Fake news of Babar Azam quitting Test cricket went viral on social media. NDTV ... In the T20 World Cup, Babar once again was left exposed after falling short with his bat.