Telegraph – Cricket and gambling have been uneasy bedfellows for hundreds of years but never more so than now. As the England and Wales Cricket Board pushes, along with other sports, for Parliament to make match-fixing a crime, is it simply a question of rooting out a few bad eggs or does there need to be a long, hard look at the way sport and gambling interact? The ECB accepts advertisements from bookmakers and allows them to operate within cricket grounds around the country. It also sells TV rights to India, where gambling, apart from on-course bookmaking at horse races,…

The Telegraph – Cricket’s anti-corruption unit could be disbanded and turned into the sport’s equivalent of an Interpol service after more than a decade of failing to police fixing within the game. The International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption Unit is to be the first victim of the radical restructuring of the world governing body with a review into its future to begin with a meeting in London this month. The review has been commissioned by the new controlling forces at the ICC – India, England and Australia – and will also include Dave Richardson, the ICC chief executive, as patience has…