S8 Ep820: Ivestigating Allegations Match-Fixing in T20 Cricket Guest: Jeremy Zakis Summary: John Bachelor and Jeremy Zakis examine a potential match-fixing scandal involving a T20 cricket match between Canada and New Zealand from February 2026,. Allegations surf
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Ivestigating Allegations of Match-Fixing in T20 Cricket
Guest: Jeremy Zakis Summary: John Bachelor and Jeremy Zakis examine a potential match-fixing scandal involving a T20 cricket match between Canada and New Zealand from February 2026,. Allegations surfaced after Canada exhibited unusual bowling and batting styles, including a high rate of "no balls" that granted New Zealand easy runs. Zakis explains that the short format of T20 makes it easier to fix than a five-day match because the outcome is decided in a much smaller, more controllable window of time. While the investigation is ongoing to determine if the team's poor performance was legitimate or corrupt, a finding of guilt would represent the first time in cricket history that an entire side was found complicit in such a scheme,
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Jeremy Zackis, who's been teaching me cricket for a couple of years now, |
| 0:07.2 | and I understand enough the special language I can interpret it if I'm given a chance. I also know |
| 0:14.4 | something about rivalries. The big one, of course, is Australia and England, the Ashes series. |
| 0:21.4 | But they're world championships every year, and because they're played between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere, |
| 0:29.0 | there's always opportunity to keep playing year-round. |
| 0:32.9 | You have teams in the southern playing, teams in the northern when it's warm and vice versa when it's cold |
| 0:40.6 | in the south. Two teams from either hemisphere, Canada and New Zealand, both English speaking, |
| 0:49.0 | you know, two people, one people separated by a common language or however it goes. |
| 0:55.3 | But a couple of weeks ago, something strange must have happened. |
| 0:59.5 | I have no comfort with this subject whatsoever, so I'm going to be careful. |
| 1:05.2 | There is an allegation that a T20 match was distorted by a decision to make scoring runs very easy for one team |
| 1:17.8 | to allow the other team to score lots of runs and win. |
| 1:22.0 | I think that's what happened. |
| 1:23.7 | It seems very impossible to be able to fix it a game like that. |
| 1:28.6 | But if they fix the 1919 Black Sox, maybe they can do anything. |
| 1:32.6 | Jeremy, help me. |
| 1:33.7 | What is the allegation? |
| 1:36.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:37.6 | Well, John, it's very much what you said. |
| 1:40.2 | And what it is, is when Canada and New Zealand played a T20 game on the 17th February this year, |
| 1:46.5 | New Zealand won by eight wickets, which was a little bit unusual at the time because |
| 1:51.5 | they were such closely matched teams and it wasn't seen that they would have such a big |
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