There was one topic of conversation in the VIP lounge of Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on April 9, 2000, as players and commentators assembled for flights to their scattered destinations following the Asia XI v World XI fund-raising match.
Two days before, the news broke that, based on taped telephone conversations with an illegal bookmaker, four international cricketers had been charged by the Delhi police with “cheating, fraud and criminal conspiracy relating to match-fixing and betting.”
To most, it was not especially surprising in itself for it had long since been
