Ashes furore: breaking what is not fixed?

By Greg Baum
Updated December 15 2017 - 10:08am, first published 9:51am

The first lesson to draw from the London Sun's expos?? of match-fixing is that it is one of those occasional journalistic exercises that by the fact of its publication guarantees the story will not come true. To the many eyes, ears and cameras already trained on an Ashes Test - witness the microscopic deconstruction of Mark Stoneman's dismissal on Thursday - will be another layer of vigilance for the least irregularity, wink or wriggle. If the fix was in, it is as well that Steve Smith did not bat on Thursday. In a typical over, with all his tics, twitches and eccentricities, he would send enough signals to make a poor, hard-working match fiddler turn to honesty.

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