Mervyn Westfield, the former Essex county cricketer, has been sentenced to four months in jail after admitting to a charge of corruption.
The 23-year-old has pleaded guilty to accepting or obtaining a corrupt payment to aid spot betting on a match. The charge comes after the player committed the offence in a 40-over game against Durham back in September.
He is the first cricketer to be prosecuted for spot-fixing in the English game.
Westfield, at the Old Bailey, claimed to have agreed to bowl an over to allow Durham score a set number of runs. In exchange, the young player received a payment of £6,000.
He will now serve half the term in prison, while £6,000 has been confiscated from him and he has been the victim of an interim suspension order from the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Judge Anthony Morris told Westfield in court: "You had an opportunity to mention them (corrupt payments) to the team captain or management, or if you were nervous of doing so, at least to your friends within the team. You chose not to do so.
"If, because of corrupt payments, it cannot be guaranteed that every player will play to the best of his ability, the reality is that the enjoyment of many millions of people around the world who watch cricket, whether on television or at cricket grounds, will be destroyed."