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India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption. India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption. India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption.

By India Today Entertainment Desk: Tests are often considered by many to be the purest form of cricket. The battle between two sides for victory over the course of four innings, in most cases, spread across five days. While many have been caught by the glitz and glamour of T20 cricket and want things to be quick, patience is key, when it comes to Tests and that's precisely what you need when you're watching Caught out Crime Corruption Cricket, directed by Supriya Sobti Gupta. Bookie MK Gupta's confession and Prabhakar's claim about Kapil Dev opens up the door to one of the megastars at the time, Mohammed Azharuddin, to be caught by the CBI and face the resultant consequences. Now, for a fan of Indian cricket, all these things may not be news and may be a thing of the past. But there are many aspects that the documentary presents before you. The whole working network of a bookie, his tricks of grooming a player before making his first request and so much more are explored by the director in the movie. The shattering of the idol and Indian captain at the time Azharuddin is probably the biggest highlight of the documentary. It shows not only the heartbreak of the fans but also of the journalists and players at the time who considered him as one of the heroes of the nation. These are new pieces of information for the modern cricket fan, whose only knowledge about the whole scandal may have been a Wikipedia page or a few articles from the past. The ending is kind of incomplete ...

Caught Out: Crime Corruption Cricket, a Netflix documentary that released on March 17, delves into one of the biggest scandals that rocked the cricket-crazed nation of India. It dives into one of the biggest scandals that shook the cricket-loving Indians to the core. The country has long regarded its best cricketers as heroes. But what if a national hero makes a mistake? What do his supporters do then? That is one aspect that the documentary that has attempted to explore during its run time of just over an hour. Could a game considered religious be so rotten? Why did our national heroes become so vulnerable to the point of national shame? Caught Out attempts to delve deeper into these unsettling questions. Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket caught the attention of the viewers soon after its release The film had already caught the focus of the cricket- loving Indians (Image courtesy- Netflix) Crime and corruption have been exposed in the movie that was directed by Supriya Sobti Gupta. This In the year 2000, when cricket was still regarded as a gentleman’s game, Delhi Police overheard a conversation between bookie Sanjeev Chawla and former South African captain Hansie Cronje, prompting them to file a case against the latter on April 7. Caught Out’s producers and director made certain to capture the authenticity of the heartbreaking scandal by interviewing the investigators and journalists who were present when these events unfolded. It features journalists and officials ...

Do not drop it… cricket grounds resonate to this phrase as players urge their teammates to pouch that catch, but this one has ‘dropped’ for all the right reasons. The documentary ‘Caught Out: Crime, Corruption, Cricket’ is dropping on the OTT platform Netflix today. The 77-minute film on match fixing, the biggest scandal in cricket is set in the 1990s, the age after which cricket lost its innocence. Supriya Sobti Gupta who makes a directorial debut with this prickly subject, the preview of which was held on Wednesday evening, looks at the lens through journalists and the scribe, especially, who first blew the lid off match fixing. ADVERTISEMENT Downfall: Hansie Cronje The outsider Aniruddha Bahal from the news magazine Tehelka, who describes himself in the film as the ‘sports journalist by accident’ broke the story. Bahal’s perspective was that he was not a traditional sports journalist and it took an outsider one with ‘fresh eyes’ to latch on to the match fixing scent like a bloodhound on a trail. His journalistic ‘nose’ started twitching, the man who was not part of the inner boys cricket writing club, knew he was on to a ‘story’ that could upend cricket itself and was not intimidated to go after it. The fan Journalist Sharda Ugra’s statement in the film that ‘sport is meant to be unscripted, if it is scripted it takes away everything that sport stands for,’ illustrates why this is the unkindest cut of all, it goes deep and actually rips the heart out of the lifeblood of...

'Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket.' releases tomorrow The late 1990s was a dark time in Indian cricket as it became prey to match-fixing and corruption. There was mudslinging on veteran cricketers and some were found guilty too. Supriya Sobti Gupta's upcoming documentary, Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket. revolves around the same. The documentary will be released on Gupta is a seasoned investigative journalist Caught Out marks Gupta's directorial debut. Being an investigative journalist, she has worked with the likes of Al Jazeera, and Channel News Asia. She has worked on documentaries like Bad Boy Billionaires: India and Mafia: Police vs The Underworld. Cricket is like a religion in India and this documentary focuses on one of the darkest phases of the game. Twitter Post

What is Netflix’s Caught Out: Crime, Corruption Cricket about? Cricket is the biggest thing in India, second perhaps only to Bollywood. And if you have seen the trailer of the movie then you already have an idea of what it means to Indians. As the voiceover on the movie’s trailer suggests, every Indian wants to be a cricketer and represent their nation. The players who are already out there representing their nations are worshiped as pois deities. But what happens when the holy sport of cricket gets corrupted? That is exactly what Caught Out: Crime, Corruption Cricket will try to uncover. In 1990s the game of cricket was maligned by several reports of match fixing and spot fixing. And it involved some of the biggest names of the game. “Sport is meant to be unscripted. If it is scripted, it takes away everything that sport stands for,” a commentator says in the trailer. The trailer then teases a journalist, who says when he started sports reporting, he never imagined he would be “breaking the lid of anything”. The movie is set to feature the stories of some of the biggest scams of the game. And includes the behind the scene footage and story of some of the biggest players like Herschelle Gibbs and former Indian Captain Azharuddin as well. The official synopsis calls Caught Out is a “pulsating story that looks at the trajectory of cricket in India, brimming with unexpected twists and turns whilst exploring how the cricketing fraternity fought back from one of the biggest cor...

Unlike behind-the-scenes docuseries like Formula 1: Drive to Survive , Break Point or Full Swing , however, Caught Out dives into the scandalous side of international sports. This particular documentary instead dives into a match-fixing scandal that rocked the world of international cricket at the turn of the century. Caught Out depicts how Indian investigators uncovered a plot that saw cricket's reputation as a gentleman's game being shattered by the revelation that bookies had managed to exert control over parts of the game and shares how the scandal impacted the sport. What is Caught Out: Crime Corruption Cricket about? The official summary for Caught Out reads: "This sports documentary examines India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption." The story broke over 20 years ago when the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation revealed they'd obtained tapes of telephone conversations between South African cricketer Hansie Cronje and an Indian bookmaker. The investigation implicated multiple other cricketers and eventually led to Cronje receiving a lifetime ban from participating in any form of the sport. Caught Out: Crime Corruption Cricket trailer The Caught Out: Crime Corruption Cricket trailer does a very good job of setting up the story of the match-fixing scandal by showing how shocking the situation was, and just how big a story it was. The video features voiceovers and interviewees explaining just h...