Former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor’s recent confession on the match-fixing allegations against him has once again opened a can of worms, and unleashed questions over the anti-corruption crusade launched by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Taylor is the second former captain from the African country to be in the anti-corruption net after Heath Streak, who was banned in 2021 for eight years following a similar confession. But how many top cricketers in India have reported attempts by bookies to the BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Security Unit since Hansie Cronje’s case shocked the cricket community in 2000? The Cronje scandal had also emerged by luck when Delhi Police chanced upon telephone conversations between Sanjay Chawla, a bookmaker and businessman, and the cricketer while probing a low-profile extortion case.
