Spot betting, or spot fixing, which is at the centre of the Pakistan cricket crisis, is a phrase new to most of us but the idea itself is familiar. It means making a bet which may not affect the result of an event, and is unrelated to the result, but relates to things that may happen in the course of an event. The suspicious no-balls bowled by Pakistan’s bowlers in last week’s Test match had no …


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There are endless ways to take a sporting punt