Originally published at: Cops bust cricket games with fake crowd noises and fixed outcomes—and very real gamblers | Boing Boing
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The Chennai Fighters did nothing wrong!
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While Indian laws do not allow sports betting (except for horse racing)
"While Indian laws only allow sports betting on horse racing . . . "
FTFY
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It’s not authentic enough until I hear this
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I don’t care for cricket but I find myself interested in seeing some of these fake games.
Getting players to convincingly make bad plays sounds like a challenge.
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Not if your marks are Russians who have never seen a game of cricket in their lives
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Acting on a tip-off
Until they got the tip-off, the authorities were stumped.
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Unfortunately not
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It was audio streaming only I presume, not video. A modern day ‘War of the Worlds’ with a twist! I wonder if they infiltrated anyone in the Kremlin?!
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The most incomprehensibly alien thing I ever saw on Doctor Who was watching Peter Davison play cricket.
I still have no idea how that game is played
No they had video
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WHAT!? That’s even crazier than I would have imagined?! Although clearly we shouldn’t rule out such fakery in the future, with deepfakes and all. Thanks for the link!
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I know you’re joking but the first few international test series in the pandemic definitely had crowd noises added when no one was allowed in the stands. It took me a while to realise because it was very well done.
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No, they hired a bunch of blokes (job creation!) and staged the matches, the umpires we telling them what to do and getting their instructions from the guys acting as bookies.
In that respect they actually put more effort in then The Sting
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