HYPOTHESIS At the end of this research the researcher would like to demonstrate how match fixing scandals affect the game. The research will also highlight the current legislation in place for such events and their implementations. The researcher will also suggest some specializations for the improvement of current and future legislation. RESEARCH QUESTIONS • How to prevent, detect and respond to match fixing in sport? • What should be done? • What is the Criminal Liability of Fixing? • What are the current regulations in force? • What recommendations could be made to stop the Fixing? CAPITOLIZATION Chapter One describes the current state of Fixing in sports and what its effects are on the game and on people. Chapter Two: Arrangements with the fixing of cricket events in a nation that adores cricket and considers it a religion, rather than a sport. Chapter three deals with the current state of the country India in terms of laws present and procedure followed in case of fixation. Chapter four deals with the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 and how Fixing comes into its ambit. Chapter Five deals with the recommendation made by the researcher to stop Spot Fixing in IPL and cricket. FIXING by NISHANT GOKHALEThe author is this article on the criminal liability of match fixing. The author's only question is "what should be done?" Speaking in consideration of the instances and concepts involved and also the nature of match fixing as well as the existing framework of criminal laws in India and other sanctions that may apply thereto. This paper argues that criminal liability should be imposed on match fixing. Which... middle of paper... only tires players out, bores them and, even more dangerously, makes them vulnerable to phone calls from bookies. Match fixing is not a new phenomenon in the Indian cricket scenario. . In 1979-80 for the first time it was alleged that in the third Test of the India-Pakistan series in Mumbai, the Pakistan team had lost the Test intentionally. Australian Dean Jones claims that in 1992-93 an Indian offered him $50,000 to reveal some information. Similarly in 1993, 1994, 1996, many players claimed to have been offered money either to provide information or to play badly and lose the game. In 1998 the Australian Cricket Board accepted that Mark Waugh and Shane Warne had provided pitch and weather information to bookies and in 2000 Hansie Cronje's admission that he had passed information to a bookie for $10,000 shook the cricket world and his belief.