Robin Francis Morris (born 6 November 1976) is a former Indian cricketer who played for both
Mumbai
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and
Odisha
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in first-class, List A and T20 matches. He was caught for involving in doctoring the pitch conditions for betting purposes at Galle stadium during Sri Lanka's home test matches against India and Australia.
Career
Robin Morris made his First-class cricket debut for Mumbai during the
1997–98 Ranji Trophy season. He also played for the Mumbai Champs team between 2000 and 2009 in the
Indian Cricket League, a List A cricket tournament which was defunct in 2009. He was part of the Mumbai Champs squad during the
Champions Cup 2000–01.
He played his last first-class cricket match during the
2004-05 Irani Cup for Mumbai against the
Rest of India cricket team. Robin Morris went onto quit cricket at the age of 31 after becoming a victim by playing in the Indian Cricket League which went onto become a controversial issue leading the tournament to be scrapped from part of the BCCI programme.
Fixing allegations
Robin Morris was alleged by the
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global Sports governing body, governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from Australia, England, and South Africa. In 1965, the body wa ...
for being involved as the match-fixer during Sri Lanka's home Test series against both
Australia in 2016 and against
India in 2017. Robin Morris was intended to have influenced in fixing allegations relating to Sri Lankan home matches for attempting pitch tampering by the ICC during
Sri Lanka's 2nd test match against Australia in Galle and
Sri Lanka's 1st test match against India in Galle. Robin was reported to have given bribes to groundsman, Tharanga Indika who works as the groundsman at the
Galle International Stadium to monitor the pitch conditions in those 2 home matches played by Sri Lanka against Australia in 2016 and India in 2017 and was noticed to have earned from betting after analysing the Galle pitch conditions. Robin Morris explained that the Galle pitch was prepared in favour of bowlers and the
Sri Lankan cricket team during the 2nd test against
Australia
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in 2016 where Sri Lanka managed to win the match by a massive margin of 229 runs, where Australia lost all 20 wickets within 3 days when batting second consuming only 501 balls.
Robin Morris along with
Dubai
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based business person Gaurav Rajkumar, Galle groundsman Tharanga Indika and Sri Lankan first-class cricketer
Tharindu Mendis have also been investigated by the ICC for attempting to another pitch tampering at Galle in
Sri Lanka's forthcoming first test match against England as a part of the
England's series against Sri Lanka in November 2018.
In December 2019, Morris along with four other people, were arrested with regards to an alleged kidnapping.
See also
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Betting controversies in cricket
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Robin
1976 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Mumbai cricketers
Odisha cricketers
Mumbai Champs cricketers
Cricketers from Mumbai