Should the result of the Nagpur Test match be investigated for possible match fixing?
Oracle is Kookee? What a ridiculous claim! Their posting style isn’t even close to being similar. Sometimes I think people are too involved in this section. Anyway this isn’t an incident of match fixing. I think it was just down to Ponting trying to avoid a fine for a slow over rate (which he failed to do and subsequently got his match fee reduced by 20%). Therefore some of Ponting’s decisions only looked suspect in the sense that he used the wrong bowlers at the wrong time. His quicks could have made in-roads but he chose to rush through with spin. It was a poor decision by Ponting and probably not the only one he made over the series, he panicked and it showed. I think if anything during this series needs to be looked at then it’s the incident involving one of the Aussie bowlers picking bits of leather off the ball. Law 42.3 states that; “It is unfair for anyone to rub the ball on the ground for any reason, interfere with any of the seams or the surface of the ball, use any implement
