They had been exposed in a sting by the pseudonymous Arab, Mazher Mahmood, a star reporter for the now-defunct tabloid newspaper, the News of the World.Posing as the Indian head of a Singapore-based betting syndicate, Mr Mahmood had filmed a British associate of the players pocketing £150,000 ($240,000) in marked notes in return for a promise to arrange match-fixing.
There are also many scripted and plotted references to the power of ESPN to arrange matches for "its" fighters.
Because there is no central governing body to arrange matches, fighters exist in a state of constant negotiation, balancing risk and reward as they set their own schedules.
In 1883, Middlesex refused to arrange matches with Lancashire due to the perceived unfair bowling of Crossland and some of his teammates.
A distinct lack of dedicated servers and modding tools alienated those attempting to make do and arrange matches on PC. "Activision haven't been particularly supportive of the PC community flat out, let's be very real about it," Scott says.
They sound more like an arranged match than a couple transfixed by each other.
She married at 18, and although it was an arranged match, she and her husband fell in love, she said.
(Bhutto's first wife, a cousin whom he married, in an arranged match, when he was twelve, lives on the family compound).
She maintains — not altogether convincingly — that it was not an "absolutely" arranged match, since she had been given the power of veto after Asif was chosen by her aunt.
When she married, it was an arranged match, with a Sindhi bigwig, Asif Ali Zardari, whom she described in her autobiography as "the heir to the chiefdom of the 100,000-strong Zardari tribe".
I remember one day when we quarrelled, and she said, 'Mummy, if you ask me one more time I won't marry at all.' But finally she relented, and agreed to an arranged match".
