Bodi concerned about possible prison sentence

According to a source close to recently-convicted match-fixing intermediary, Gulam Bodi, he is "shattered" and "concerned" about sentencing, which will happen on January 28 next year. "He has a wife, three young children and an ageing mother," said the source. "He has just found employment through someone in his extended family but these last few years have been a struggle. He is obviously concerned about the prospect of serving time in prison."

Bodi appeared in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes court on Friday, where he pleaded guilty under the Prevention of Corrupt Activities Act for his role as middleman in the months leading up to the 2015 Ram/Slam T20, South African domestic cricket's then-premier T20 competition.

He now faces the possibility of 15 years imprisonment, although such is the newness of the legal terrain - and the authorities' historical reluctance to prosecute sportsmen and women under the Act - that a maximum sentence remains unlikely.

Then again, the opposite might be true. Now that South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have become involved in the case, Bodi could find himself in extremely deep waters. It was by no means certain that a criminal case would be pursued by the NPA, after Bodi's