HYPOTHESISAt the end of this research, the researcher would like to prove the impact of match fixing scandals on the game. The research will also focus on the legislations currently in place for such events and their implementation. The researcher will also propose some major areas for improving existing legislation and future legislation. RESEARCH QUESTIONS• How can we prevent, detect and respond to match-fixing in sport?• What should be done?• What is the solution? criminal liability for fixing?• What statutes are currently in force?• What recommendation could be made to stop fixing?CHAPTERThe first chapter will describe the current state of fixing in sports and what effects it has on the game and people. Chapter two with the fixing of cricket events in a nation that reveres cricket and considers it a religion rather than a sport. Chapter three deals with the current state of the country India in terms of existing laws and procedure followed in case of fixation. Chapter four deals with the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 and how rigging comes within its ambit. Chapter five discusses the recommendation made by the researcher to stop spot-fixing in IPL and cricket. FIXING by NISHANT GOKHALEThe author is this article on criminal liability for match-fixing. The author's only question is "what should be done?" Taking into consideration the instances and concepts involved as well as the nature of match-fixing as well as the existing framework of criminal laws in India and other sanctions that may apply to it. This article argues that criminal liability should be imposed in cases of match-fixing. What... middle of paper... it just tires players out, it also bores them and, more dangerously, it leaves them vulnerable to phone calls from bookmakers. Match-fixing is not a new phenomenon in the Indian cricket scenario. . In 1979-80, for the first time, it was alleged that during the third Test of the India-Pakistan series in Mumbai, the Pakistani team had intentionally lost the Test. Australian Dean Jones claims that in 1992-93, an Indian offered him $50,000 to reveal certain information. Similarly, in 1993, 1994, 1996, many players claimed that they were offered money either to give information or to play poorly and lose the game. In 1998 the Australian Cricket Board admitted that Mark Waugh and Shane Warne had given pitch and weather information to certain bookmakers and in 2000 Hansie Cronje's admission of passing information to a bookmaker for 10 000 dollars shook the cricket world and its belief..