T20 World Cup 2024: The T20 World Cup 2024 being held in the USA and West Indies is making headlines every day. This is the first time in the history of the limited-overs World Cup that 20 teams have participated together. Due to this, the excitement of the tournament has increased even more. Some incident related to every match goes viral on social media.

In the same sequence, a sensational incident like match fixing is coming to the fore in this World Cup (T20 World Cup 2024). During the group stage match, a veteran player was offered crores of rupees to do this disgusting and shameful act for cricket. Who was that player and what was he asked to do, let us know in detail.

Fixing scandal during T20 World Cup 2024

Big news related to fixing is coming out in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. Actually, a player from Uganda has complained about this to the International Cricket Council i.e. ICC. According to this, he told that he received calls several times from unknown numbers.

When the ICC's anti-corruption department investigated, it was revealed that the person who contacted the Ugandan cricketer was a retired player of the Kenyan team. He had made the offer of match fixing through a conversation on mobile.

Crores of rupees were offered!

The Ugandan player had received an offer to do spot fixing. In fact, according to information received from sources, the former Kenyan player had offered him about 50 crores for this. Some media reports have claimed that the Ugandan player, whose name has not been revealed, had to bowl a wide while bowling. However, this has not been officially confirmed.

Such incidents have happened before

Scandals like match fixing or spot fixing are not new in the cricket world. In fact, many such incidents have happened in history before. In 2010, the spot fixing incident during the Pakistan and Australia series created a sensation. Three players of the Pak team - Mohammad Aamir, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty in this. After this, the ICC banned these players.