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I don't watch cricket neither do I care much about that it as a sport, but it seems like there is nothing good we as a nation can do. These people deserve to be punished. **Lets make examples of these corrupt players **so that no one would ever do this again.
bhai sahib, billi ke galay mai ghanti kon bandhay ga? yahan ek se barh ker ek corrupt betha hay.
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^^^ You know I used to think that Saddam's son was crazy for beating up his Olympic teams for not performing. Can we do the same? Can we tie these a-holes up in public and let people throw shoes at them? Just an idea... :(
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Arrests will come after the match...
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Amir did bowled very strange and huge No-Ball's yesterday
and it was hell bad
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Looking at this mess, now i am wondering Bob Wolmer's death might not have been so natural after all!
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Agreed, any form of match fixing is bad but why so much of noise around just few no balls? It wouldn't have changed the fate of the match anyways!
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yes - waisay he kafi phaanti parti rahi !!
nothing had to do with No balls
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Agreed, any form of match fixing is bad but why so much of noise around just few no balls? It wouldn't have changed the fate of the match anyways!
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Bowling no balls on purpose might not change the course of game but how about unexplainable batting collapses, high number of dropped catches...
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Mazhar Majeed known to Pakistan players
Mazhar Majeed, the man at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy that has engulfed the ongoing Lord’s Test between England and Pakistan, is known to many members of the Pakistan team as a UK-based agent. Along with his brother Azhar, Mazhar claimed to represent the interests of a number of Pakistan’s top cricketers in the UK.
Mazhar was arrested by Scotland Yard on Sunday night on suspicion of a conspiracy to defraud bookmakers. He was caught on camera by The News of the World claiming to have bribed Pakistan’s bowlers to bowl no-balls at previously agreed moments during the Test. He claimed to the paper to have up to seven players from the side working for him, though so far only four have been named.
Cricinfo understands that the brothers have known many members in the team since at least 2006, the last time Pakistan toured England. It is unclear whether any official agreement was signed between the players and the brothers, but over a number of years Azhar and Mazhar have handled various sponsorship and marketing contracts for the players in the UK.
How familiar the brothers are with the players is also evident from the UK-based Pakpassion.net, a popular fan website that regularly carries out interviews with Pakistan’s top cricketers. In a number of interviews with players such as Salman Butt and Saeed Ajmal, Azhar and Mazhar were thanked for setting up the interaction.
For a while, between 2008 and 2009, the website had a regular section called “The Agents Views”, in which Azhar would update readers on the activities of a number of players. The introduction to this section calls Azhar the UK-based agent for a number of players including Younis Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Misbah-ul-Haq, Abdur Rauf as well as others.
The same website also revealed that Mazhar was in Australia during Pakistan’s tour at the start of this year. Pakistan lost every single international through the series; an inquiry in the aftermath of the fractious tour revealed that coaches Aaqib Javed and Intikhab Alam suspected Kamran Akmal of deliberately underperforming. Allegations centred, in particular, around the second Test in Sydney, which Pakistan lost from a dominant position by 36 runs.
The inquiry committee looked into other matches as well, including the Twenty20 international in Melbourne, which Pakistan lost by two runs. Board officials stopped short of using the term match-fixing, but privately conceded that players might have underperformed to undermine others as part of rampant factionalism and politicking within the side.
While in Australia, the players apparently sent a video message to their Under-19 counterparts, at that time across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand preparing for the World Cup final against Australia. And a post underneath the thread thanks Mazhar, “who is currently in Australia with the players for sending clips to PP [Pakpassion]”.
http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/current/story/474920.html
Players were told not to meet Majeed brothers
The Pakistan team was warned about meeting Mazhar and Azhar Majeed by the team management at the start of their tour to England. One of the brothers, Mazhar, was arrested last night by Scotland Yard on suspicion of a conspiracy to defraud bookmakers, after being caught on video by The News of the World (NOTW) offering to bribe Pakistan’s bowlers to bowl no-balls on demand during the Lord’s Test.
The brothers are agents who represent a number of Pakistan’s players in the UK, helping them secure sponsorships for cricket equipment among other things.
“When we started this tour, I told the players they should not be entertaining these two in their hotel rooms,” Yawar Saeed, the team manager, told Cricinfo. “These boys are their agents and, anywhere we tour in the world, we tell our players that they are not allowed to have agents in their hotel rooms. It is the policy on the tour.”
The team management had warned players as soon as they landed in London against meeting these two brothers because of suspicions about some of their activities, Pakistan’s leading Urdu paper Jang had reported on July 27. The reporter, Abdul Majid Bhatti, said he received calls from men claiming to represent the brothers soon after the story appeared, threatening legal action.
NOTW claimed that seven Pakistan players were involved, though only four have been named so far. Saeed confirmed to Cricinfo that “one or two were questioned by Scotland Yard,” last night soon after the story broke. He dismissed reports that the passports of several players had been taken away, saying that all passports were in the possession of the team management.
“Scotland Yard are now investigating and we will assist them in whatever way they may need,” Saeed said. “I cannot say anything more right now.”
http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/current/story/474912.html
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**Bookie alleges Salman Butt led the cheating during Lord’s test **
Mazhar Majeed, a bookie based in the UK, has alleged that Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt is involved in match-fixing and led the scandal during the recent final test at Lord’s.
London-based tabloid ‘News of the World’ has reported that Mazhar allegedly paid bribes to Pakistani players to bowl no-balls during the match. Mazhar is also supposed to have named other Pakistani players - bowlers Mohd. Amir and Mohd. Asif as well wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal - in the alleged match-fixing charges.
Mazhar has since been arrested, and Scotland Yard is probing the match-fixing allegations.
Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed has said that he as well as other Pakistani cricketers have been question by Scotland Yard in connection with the allegations.
http://www.masala.com/24708-match-fixing-scandal-hits-pakistan
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Hofstede was right afterall… sigh - kya bane ga hamara 
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So sad to see this , feel like crying out loud.
Ramiz speaking on Sky sports 1 said he is ashamed with all this, he looks so sad, almost crying and keep twitching his hands. Also he said they are ashamed to be out in the field at the moment. Only Aqib, Umar Amin, Imran Farhat and Wahad Riaz standing outside on the balcony.
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Lord’s Test at centre of fixing allegations
The fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord’s is at the centre of a police investigation into spot-fixing following the arrest of a 35-year-old man, Mazher Majeed, who was allegedly caught claiming to have bribed Pakistan’s bowlers to bowl no-balls on demand.
According to a report in The News of the World, Majeed accepted £150,000 to arrange a fix involving Pakistan’s new-ball bowlers, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, whom he allegedly asked to bowl no-balls at specific moments of the match. The paper also alleges that the team captain, Salman Butt, and the wicketkeeper, Kamran Akmal, are involved, along with three other unnamed cricketers.
Cricinfo understands that the players named were questioned about sums of money found in the rooms, though it is thought that those were made up of the daily allowances players are given while on tour. The man arrested, Majeed, is believed to have contacts with the team though until now it was assumed he was acting as an agent for players, helping them secure sponsorship and kit contracts.
**Officials from the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit are currently flying in from Dubai, and in a statement, the ICC confirmed that the allegations were being taken seriously. **
“The International Cricket Council, the England & Wales Cricket Board and the Pakistan Cricket Board have been informed by the Metropolitan Police that a 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers,” read the statement.
“The Metropolitan Police have informed the ICC, ECB and PCB that their investigations continue and ICC, ECB and PCB, with the involvement of the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, are fully assisting those enquiries. No players nor team officials have been arrested in relation to this incident and the fourth npower Test match will continue as scheduled on Sunday. As this is now subject to a police investigation neither ICC, ECB, PCB, nor the ground authority, the MCC, will make any further comment.”
A Scotland Yard spokeman added: “Following information received from the News of the World we have today [Saturday, August 28] arrested a 35-year old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers.”
In a video secretly recorded during the NOTW investigation, a man alleged to be Mazher is clearly heard predicting that Amir would bowl the first over of the England innings, and that he would deliver a no-ball from the first ball of the third over - which as Cricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary noted: “was an enormous no-ball, good half a metre over the line.” The man also appeared to correctly predict a no-ball from the sixth ball of the tenth over, bowled this time by Asif.
Pakistan’s team manager Yawar Saeed confirmed that the allegations were being investigated, with police turning up at the team hotel in Swiss Cottage at 7.30pm, shortly after the close of an eventful third day of the Lord’s Test, in which Pakistan were left on the brink of defeat after losing 14 wickets in the day.
*According to Sky News reporters outside the team hotel, police officers were seen leaving the building with two bags at around 11pm, while **an unidentified man in a Pakistan training top was understood to have been taken away in an unmarked police car **from the back of the building, although the team manager denied that any arrests had been made within the squad. *
Even allowing for their disastrous on-field performance, Pakistan left Lord’s with unusual haste after the third day’s play, with the team bus departing barely 20 minutes after the close of play, before any member of the squad had taken part in the mandatory post-match press conference.
http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/current/story/474890.html
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I wish we had a hitler for these cricketers ..
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they should be fired on the spot...
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Highly disappointed in them....
i mean, dont they even think for a second before doing anything of such sort that their action could bring shame to the nation?
down with shameless n corrupt pakistanis...
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Match-fixing scandal: Arrested bookie claims Indian link
*The bookie arrested by Scotland Yard for alleged ‘spot-fixing’ in the ongoing England- Pakistan Lord’s Test claims to have links with bookmakers in India as well. *
Mazhar Majeed, 35, told an undercover reporter of ‘The News of the World’ during a sting operation that there are no major activities when the “Indian market is not open”.
Pakistan captain Salman Butt, pace duo of Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir and four other players were questioned by the Scotland Yard detectives after the bookie, in the video of the sting operation, claimed that the team bowled no balls for money during the match.
*In the the same recording, Majeed claims to know bookmakers in India as well. *
“…in terms of results, depending on who we are playing, sometimes it can be 300,000 pounds. The max it can be is 450,000 pounds. You can speak to any bookie in India and they will tell you about this information and how much they’ll pay. If you had the information and they knew that it was coming from the source they’d pay you that money themselves,” he is quoted as saying.
*“I deal with an Indian party. They pay me for the information.” *
In one conversation, the tabloid reported that “to hammer home the amounts of money our man could win, Majeed called an Indian bookie he regularly deals with and asked him how much he would pay for a definite Oval Test result. Majeed demanded 1.2million dollars but the bookie replied, ‘I’ll give you one (million)’.”
Despite the scandal, the fourth day’s play of the match would go ahead as scheduled on Sunday.
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Extremely embarassing.......
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kg itni harsh sazzaaa tu nahi honi chahiyay
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kg itni harsh sazzaaa tu nahi honi chahiyay
fm this is not something to flood at or to make fun of...