Corruption in cricket has been a problem since the 1990’s despite the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit the International Cricket Council set up to go after illegal bookies. Time magazine explains that “…bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian Sea in Dubai pull in hundreds of millions of dollars on scheduled series of big matches, and might have been keen to shut Woolmer up if he threatened their gold mine.”

“The link between the murder of Pakistan's coach, Bob Woolmer, and match fixing is for now unproven but it is sure to form a major part of inquiries by both the Jamaican police and the cricketing authorities,“ reports the Guardian.