I can see you have got a bit of a pendants hat on today. Are you seriously saying referee's in snooker effect a match as much as in cricket?
Anyway, snooker players don't cheat...just don't tell their bookies!!
The referee in snooker hardly ever has an impact on a match, it's a different thing and your actually on your own on that table, so a foul is down to you and nothing else (other than the position you've been put in).
Even the legend Sir Donald Bradman never walked. He said "I'm regularly given...
Even the great Sir Donald Bradman didn't walk. He said that you were given out enough times when you weren't for it to be justified to stand your ground and let the umpire make the decision.
Players have and haven't walked since the game was started. Gilchrist just happened to be a high profile walker, which I might add infuriated the rest of his team, especially Ponting who never walked - if he hadn't been so bloody good he'd have been dropped because of it and said as much in his...