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Build it, and they will come. At least, online.
Police in India have charged four people who set up a cricket pitch in the village of Molipur, with creases, wickets, and stadium lights.
Then they hired more than 20 unemployed local farm laborers and teenagers, for about 400 rupees each, or $5 a game, and put them in jerseys that looked a lot like those of Indian Premier League cricket teams, like the Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans. They paid a few more people to pose as umpires. Then they put on a cricket tournament — kind of.
The umpire-pretenders called for certain pitches and plays. The imposter players followed their orders. The scam cricket matches they conjured were streamed over YouTube, sweetened with simulated crowd noise, sound effects, and game commentary by a man doing an impression of one of India's top cricket announcers, Harsha Bhogle.
Build it, and they will come. At least, online.
Police in India have charged four people who set up a cricket pitch in the village of Molipur, with creases, wickets, and stadium lights.
Then they hired more than 20 unemployed local farm laborers and teenagers, for about 400 rupees each, or $5 a game, and put them in jerseys that looked a lot like those of Indian Premier League cricket teams, like the Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans. They paid a few more people to pose as umpires. Then they put on a cricket tournament — kind of.
The umpire-pretenders called for certain pitches and plays. The imposter players followed their orders. The scam cricket matches they conjured were streamed over YouTube, sweetened with simulated crowd noise, sound effects, and game commentary by a man doing an impression of one of India's top cricket announcers, Harsha Bhogle.
Opinion: Wicket bad bet
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