Last week, former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor shocked the cricket world when he claimed that an Indian businessman allegedly coerced him to spot-fix matches in 2019, paying him $15,000 as a “deposit”. In his open letter that detailed his trip to India, the former batter said he was allegedly tricked into taking cocaine at a party and the video was used to “blackmail” him. While he reported the episode to the International Cricket Council four months later and clarified that he has never been involved in match-fixing, Taylor added that the incident affected his mental health. As soon as he published his statement, Twitter users in India went into overdrive, noting that Inside Edge 3 depicted events that were eerily similar to the controversy.

Brendan Taylor