Many blame the betting industry, which offers wagers on not just the outcomes of contests, but also on virtually random events within them, such as the number of yellow cards issued inafootballmatch, or the number of no-balls bowled during an innings in cricket.
Spot betting involves gamblers staking money on the minutiae of sporting encounters, such as the exact timing of the first throw-in during afootballmatch.
It was sparked by death sentences handed down by a court on 21 local football fans involved in riots that left 74 people dead at afootballmatchin the city almost a year ago.