Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket

Netflix destroyed a good plot. I mean this documentary is more focused on azhar than the complete scam. Not a single word or clip is used for Ajay Jadeja, Kishan Kumar, Five south African cricketers including Harshell Gibbs and several others. The incident of so called bribe offered by Kapil dev to Manoj prabhakar was in Colombo in Singer cup in 1994 and according to Prabhakar, Sidhu was eye witness of that incident. In Tehelka tapes, sidhu didn't rejected manoj allegations. Well, I like to say most of the cricket lovers of that time have more information as compared to this documentary. So, Nothing new in this documentary but with lot of cuts in real incidents.

Its a kind of story when BCCI was still a startup, but a very very successful one and not the giant corporation it used to be now. The startup had little rules and things go by the whims and fancies of management / captains. Its a gutsy move to investigate and actually bring such names to light. The gambling mechanism is creative. Buy the documentary makers just want to make it sensational by putting in names like Kapil Dev and Dawood Ibrahim, with only little story and just adding publicly available footage. The Tehelka operation is also not to find the truth but to just sensationalize it...

I think Azhar should have been thrown out of the community, instead this show only shows confusion of Azhar's innocence. Everyone know he was guilty. But still Just over some technicality he got out of the case. Their should have been more focus on The investigation side then on Azhar, and who is Noel David how come he say it all but no one else from the team cones out gives out the truth that Azhar was actual guilty. What about Jadeja nobody mentioned him in the case much. Wasn't he guilty to ruining the name of cricket that too in India. How shameless these people can be and instead we making movie and series on their name.

It was appalling that CBI did not have video evidence or audio recording of Azharuddin's confession at their office. The CBI officers who were talking in the documentary had not mentioned anything about this. There was no mention of Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia involvement in the fixing. It was mentioned that most of the cricket administrators on the board knew about the match fixing but the thread was left hanging. It was also not clear why the bookie MK Gupta had surrendered in the investigation. For most of the documentary, the director narrates in a gripping and tense atmosphere. It leaves you fuming and raging about the match fixing but only to prove in the end that there was no credible evidence found against the players, which was so absurd.