luckyeddie
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Bloody hell - match-fixing in class. What did it take to get you to throw the exam - milk or dinner money?
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IPL Spot Fixing Scandal
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bagapath
International Captain
nah. there is nothing definitive about these things. it is possible to settle for 2k and be happy with it. and at the same time, it is equally possible to be unhappy with 200 mil also. it is all about what kind of a person one is.
Daemon
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It probably is a factor though. How large a role it plays, like what you say, depends on the kind of person.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Does anyone even know what really happens to an uncapped Indian player in the IPL? They are crumbs in the mix, with no standing whatsoever. They get pushed around and can't raise a point, let alone push for their places in the side. It's like they're paid a king's ransom (for them) and so they should stay quiet. A clear example is that of a Punjab player who was shooed off a bench supposedly for KXIP VIPs, even though he's an experienced Punjab Ranji player. All the overseas players bar a few get all the games they can get, while uncapped Indian players get rotated virtually every match. Mitchell Marsh, not even an Aussie national regular, is a frontline player for one team! IPL teams fight tooth and nail for foreign imports but neglect their domestic Indian players. Not surprisingly, some of them get desperate, like the seven examples (not counting the one who's earning seriously big money), who may have been fed up with the preferential mistreatment.
Billions betrayed for a hundred thousand? The only people betrayed by fixing are the greedy, thoughtless franchise owners, so in a way it's a good thing such an incident happened. Now they're moaning in public about how the public is being cheated. From an Indian supporter's point of view, no IPL franchise has contributed to the Indian cricket scene.
Billions betrayed for a hundred thousand? The only people betrayed by fixing are the greedy, thoughtless franchise owners, so in a way it's a good thing such an incident happened. Now they're moaning in public about how the public is being cheated. From an Indian supporter's point of view, no IPL franchise has contributed to the Indian cricket scene.
Spikey
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i feel like i could have got away with posting this as a joke but i don't think you can
Prince EWS
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AaronK is Pakistani; if anyone can make that joke then he can.
Spikey
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Really? I always classed him in my head as Indian. are you sure you're not wrong
Daemon
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He probably even knows AaronK's postal code, don't test him.
Faisal1985
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silentstriker
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When did I say anything about being definitive? Very few things about human beings are definitive.
But no, it's not equally likely that someone in poverty with only 2k to be as resistant to a 100k bribe compared to someone with 200 mil. That's not how human nature works.
bagapath
International Captain
I don't think you or anyone else can say how "human nature works". A multi millionaire taking a ten buck bribe and a pauper rejecting a million dollars are both possible.
People are either corrupt or not. Their breaking points differ from person to person in the corrupt category. Some never break. To say everyone is corruptible is plain cynicism and untrue. There are people who cannot be bought.
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
Yes, but I don't think Silentstriker is talking about a corrupt person and a non-corrupt person.
He is talking about 2 corrupt persons out of whom one is rich and the other not so rich.
It is less probable that the richer guy takes an amount which is 5 times less his annual earnings than a poor guy taking an amount which is 5 times his earnings..
grecian
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There are constant multi-millionaires, who have done some fairly stupid stuff to make more money, which has led to gaol, and worse, one wonders if it's the buzz more than anything else.
Take Sree and Chandila here, Sreesanth doesn't need the money particularly, but is still going to be rich now. Chandila had just arrived on the IPL scene, looked good too, he could have made his fortune with a few good years.
Arguable that it's Chandila that has most to lose here, and he was the one who should of resisted most.
Yet as others have said, people just do these things when they think they can get away with it.
Stapel
International Regular
Though I tend to agree, there is another factor that's quite important: There might be factors, unknown to us, that force a person into doing things he normally would not. I know a first hand story about a guy who had debts with some really nasty criminals. That made him steal 40.000 euros from our club.
Of course one might argue it was his own fault to get in such a position in the first place, but still.... If the situation is bad enough, and some criminals have the right leverage, most would break, I guess.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I think most people know exactly how human nature works.....
Yes, I am sure there are some who can never be bought. Has nothing to do whatsoever with my point.