Four Corners – Fixing Cricket (2000)
Synopsis
When Hanse Cronje admitted that he’d taken money to throw matches, the world of cricket was thrown into crisis. Then it was disclosed that players and officials had known for years that matches were being fixed, while the cricketing establishment simply sat on its hands, playing the cricketing fans for mugs. This is the story about what was fuelling the match fixing of cricket and whether such greed and corruption can ever be stamped out.
Curator’s notes
This is a very finely researched and produced story about how easily sport can be corrupted when huge sums of money are at stake. The power of the story comes from the fact that we think of cricket as the ultimate gentleman’s game. Instead, what is revealed is a sordid world of big punters, big bookies and sleazy deals.
Television journalist Liz Jackson presents the program. She trained as a lawyer before turning to journalism. She began working at ABC’s Radio National in 1986 where she presented Background Briefing before moving over to Four Corners in 1996. Liz Jackson has won 5 Walkley awards during her illustrious career, one of them for Fixing Cricket.
In 2005 Liz presented Media Watch for a year before returning to Four Corners in 2006.
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