A feature length documentary on match fixing in cricket, called ‘Caught Out’ which exploded in the 1990s, is streaming on an OTT platform. The documentary is a recounting of what people already know about the match-fixing saga. Much has happened since that exposé and authorities are taking steps, too many to list here, to keep the game as clean as possible.

Yet, this has so many takeaways which go beyond cricket and sport itself. They are applicable in life, too. First is the web that traps people. Once you are in, there is little way out and it becomes a life destroying, complex maze, difficult and dangerous to get out of. Even when you think you have left the life of crime you had behind, it will tail you snapping at your heels, or throwing a long shadow over your life and your loved ones. They, too, are inadvertently sucked in, they do suffer because of the association.