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The Sun is claiming there were "events" fixed in the first test match as well.
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^ Now they will get event in every match played … They are reviewing the last 80 matches played ..
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that is all we can do..blame indians for all of our problems...never solve the problem...ljust blame indians....look at the water issue..we never did anything to imporve the situation internally rather shifted the whole focus on india....
I agree.. we find India as scapegoat for everything and vice versa. We should take ownership of this fiasco..from the president to appointed chairman to PCB officials and players.
Although I think Amir got sucked into what everyone else in the team is doing, it is a lesson for every teenager to take a stand on basic morals and values when confronted with a corrupt environment. If not for the country then for his own sake. That is the only hope for Pakistan and future generations. I can see how the team turned mullah under Inzimam to take refuge from these satanic evils that surround them on these tours.
I am sure rookies like Umar Amin and Wahab Riaz know more than an average outsider. I find it hard to beleive that Waqar didn't know what goes on in player's hotel rooms.
There are no home games in Pak anymore nor do I see them in foreseeable future. I hope this tour continues for the sake of Pakistan's dignity. I would take 5 - 0 than the team returning home.
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I agree with you Fayz. But i dunno, a bunch of idiots have got together, Yawar Saeed, Ijaz Butt, Salman Butt
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I can understand that one is innocent until proven guilty, but take a look at Salman Butt's press conference. Not once did he deny the allegations made against him or the team members! An innocent person would not have had this type of body language after such serious allegations. He would have attended the conference outraged and threatening to sue the accuser.
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I am sure rookies like Umar Amin and Wahab Riaz know more than an average outsider. I find it hard to beleive that Waqar didn't know what goes on in player's hotel rooms.
Exactly, considering he himself was involved in fixing during his times he definitely had knowledge of what was going on here whether he was party in it or not.
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Hey Guyz I'm New Here...BTW About The this lil scandal thing i think its pretty ridiculous how these players can sell their motherland for money. i say all these players should be banned for lie and should be sentenced to a long time in jail ( 10 years is the maximum for fraud in UK btw )
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^ Welcome to Gupshup! Let the case its due course, once proven guilty they should not only be banned but jailed (in Pakistan), assets seized.
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INSHALLAH!
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@Guardian
The England and Wales Cricket Board is desperate for the one-day leg of Pakistan's tour to go ahead despite the allegations of corruption that surround the team after yesterday's exposé.
Sources close to the board say a cancellation of the two Twenty20 internationals and five one-day fixtures that remain would cost the ECB £10m-£12m, roughly half its reserves at a time when the game is under growing financial strain. The board is hoping that Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's one-day captain who arrived in London last night, will act as a power broker who can ensure the series goes ahead in the wake of the alleged betting scandal that has plunged international cricket into crisis and brought calls for life bans for any players found guilty. The ECB is believed to be demanding that the three players implicated in the scandal be omitted from the one-day series as part of a deal with the Pakistan board.
Police raided the Pakistan team hotel near Regents Park late on Saturday, confiscating mobile phones belonging to the Pakistan captain, Salman Butt, and the fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif as allegations of corruption overshadowed England's victory yesterday by an innings and 225 runs at Lord's, which gave them a 3-1 series win.
Afridi, who resigned as Pakistan's Test captain after their defeat against Australia at Lord's this summer, will take over the captaincy from Butt, implicated in the News of the World sting, when the first Twenty20 international begins in Cardiff on Sunday.
Reports in Pakistan, from sources close to Afridi, suggest that he implored the Pakistan tour manager, Yawar Saeed, to keep the players away from the brothers Mazhar and Azhar Majeed. Mazhar Majeed, who claims to manage 10 Pakistan players, including Butt, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers but was bailed without charge by police last night.
The News of the World quoted Mazhar Majeed as saying: "A lot of the boys want to fk up Afridi as he is trying to f**k up things for them. They all want Butt to be captain." **Afridi is likely to be a key figure when England cricket officials, led by the chairman of the ECB, Giles Clarke, enter 24 hours of talks with their Pakistan Cricket Board counterparts before deciding whether the one-day series will go ahead.
Pakistan's tour manager insisted that it would and that Pakistan would fulfil a one-day warm-up against Somerset on Thursday as well. After a demoralised Pakistan side had lost the final Test Saeed said. "We are moving to the West country on Tuesday and we will play all the one-days and the T20s. It is not for me within 24 hours to pass a judgment as to whether the allegations are true or not."
The ECB was privately advising the counties staging the one-day matches that it was confident a solution could be found to enable the series to go ahead. Whether Pakistan could voluntarily withdraw Butt, Amir and Asif from the one-day squad to enable allegations to be investigated is one area that is bound to be discussed.
County chief executives were notably sanguine. Stewart Regan, Yorkshire's chief executive, said: "Even if the series was cancelled for reasons of force majeure, I would not expect us to financially suffer. The ECB have built up a contingency fund for such outcomes, although you can only spend your reserves once." Dave Harker, Durham's chief executive, suggested: "The biggest danger would be that cancellation of the series could lead people to lose interest in the game." From Hampshire, and their chief executive, Rod Bransgrove, there was also optimism: "The allegations are horrible but it is up to the authorities to see what can be done."
Embarrassment was evident when the series presentations were made not on the outfield but in the Long Room. Clarke presented Amir with Pakistan's award as man of the series but chose notto shake his hand and his expression was that of a man who would rather be elsewhere.
Andrew Strauss called for cricketers guilty of accepting bribes to rig any element of a cricket match to be banned for life. "With a lot of these match-fixing allegations it is so hard to prove one way or another, which is one of the real difficulties with it," he said. "If someone is found categorically guilty of doing it, the only way for me is for you not to be able to play international cricket again."
The Pakistan sports minister, Ijaz Hussain Jakhrani, has promised a life ban for any Pakistan players found guilty. "We are waiting for a detailed report from the PCB and, if any players are found guilty of being involved in fixing, they will be banned for life," Jakhrani said yesterday.
Butt, a young stand-in captain who had been widely praised this summer, only once roused himself from hesitant, reluctant responses. Asked if he would resign, he asked: "Why? Pakistan has won a Test match from Australia after 15 years and from England after nine years, so does thatmake me have to resign from thiscurrent situation? I haven't any allegation except just taking my name. There is nothing I have seen, or been shown, that involves me."
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This stupid management shouldn't be under pressure to suspend these rats.
If they had a brain they would have told them to pack up and stay in a third class beat up motel and not to show up around the few players who are not involved.
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this is sarasar naainsaafi with rest of the players, they must be feeling betrayed by their fellow match fixers… akele hi maal laptne me lage the becharo ko pucha tak nahi 
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Pakistan to send FIA officials to probe spot-fixing scandal
Pakistan is sending Federal Investigation Agency officials to London to probe the allegation of the involvement of its cricketers in spot-fixing in the fourth cricket Test match against England at Lords.
The three-member delegation would fly to London immediately as the government had taken serious notice of the latest fixing scandal to involve Pakistan team, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.
“The FIA delegation will be headed by an additional director and they will not only assist but also carry out their own inquiries into the allegations made against our players,” Malik said.
He pointed out that the government wanted to know the truth about the allegations against the players through its own investigating agency.
“The Scotland Yard is doing its own investigations, our team is there to assist them and also independently find out what has happened,” Malik said.
Sources said the decision to send the FIA delegation had also come on the advice of Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan who has been involved in liasoning with the Scotland Yard since the allegations surfaced after the arrest of a 35-year-old Pakistani man, Mazhar in London.
Malik said the government would take serious action against any player(s) who it was confirmed had done any spot-fixing or taken bribes from any bookmaker or middleman.
“This issue has already hurt our image and that of Pakistan cricket and we want to know the truth. We want to be clear about our cricket future,” he said,
Malik said if players were found guilty the government would also hold a full scale inquiry into their total assets at home and in foreign bank accounts.
In late nineties, when the match-fixing scandal first broke out, the government’s accountability had investigated into the allegations of some of its players being involved in match fixing after Pakistan lost the 1999 World Cup final to Australia also at Lords.
But, after a lengthy investigation the government did not take any action against any player.
Action was also only taken against a few players after an 18-months judicial inquiry into the allegations between 1998 and 2000 by a former Lahore High Court judge on the recommendations of the board.
But the former judge who headed the inquiry, Malik Qayyum said on Sunday "The spectre of match fixing had again raised its head because the government and board did not fully implement his recommendations one of which was to have an annual assessment of the financial statements and assets of players.
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Reactions to the issue have come in thick and fast, especially from former cricketers. Matthew Hayden](http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5616.html), the former Australia opener, said it was “not in Australia’s DNA to accept any kind of skullduggery”, and felt the scandal highlighted the different cultures that exist in the game. “You have a look at Pakistan which has been wiped out by the recent floods and you put yourself in the position that maybe you can try and get what’s left of your family and salvage the situation,” Hayden told AAP. “We wouldn’t ever dare get involved in corruption but that’s in our country.”
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^ Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were just trying to make a little extra pocket money... no?
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^ Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were just trying to make a little extra pocket money... no?
Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were not accused of fixing matches, only of providing pitch and weather information. They were roundly condemned and punished for it.
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Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were not accused of fixing matches, only of providing pitch and weather information. They were roundly condemned and punished for it.
Yeah, please, lets not cry double standards here. I was at the pair's first home Test in Australia after the scandal came out and the crowd was certainly condemning of the players. The media also lambasted them down here and so lets not pretend they weren't punished. Also, I watched almost all of Hayden's career and, as a player who played the game competitively and to the best of his ability, he absolutely has the right to make the statements he has made.
The only thing worse than the spot-fixing and match fixing going on is the cries from people about double standards. No cricketing nation has embarrassed the game to a larger extent than Pakistan (and I'm not referring to this incident in isolation).
Quite frankly, England should revoke our right to play cricket in their grounds. The ECB should distance themselves from Pakistan cricket for the good of their own game. If only cricket had the appropriate governing bodies and the correct administrative infrastructure, this issue could be dealt with fully.
It won't happen but quite simply all Test playing nations should refuse any Pakistan cricketing tours to their countries and, as such, leave Pakistan cricket to be a pariah until it sorts itself out through the dealing of severe, harsh punishments.
It may be match-fixing or it may just be spot-fixing. However, the only way in which Pakistan cricket can redeem itself as a somewhat respected member of the cricketing fraternity is for it to deal out punishments that are harsher than the crime itself. Unfair as it may be, for the sake of cricket in Pakistan, it is imperative that the players involved are made an example of publicly.
Let us hope Pakistan cricket is given a rest from international cricket (as Malcolm Speed suggested, as much as I hate to agree with him) and are only able to return once the issue has been dealt with, not swept under the carpet or band-aided.
While this is a sad time, it is also an opportunity. If the management summons the courage to definitively end the careers of Butt, Asif, Kamran, Aamir (this will hurt the most) and anyone else who is found to be involved, then at least progress on this front has been made.
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Reflecting on famous No-Ball by R.A.N.D.I.V (SL) to bar Sehwag from completing his 100 
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Asif a serial fixer, wanted $200,000.. claimed Pakistan would lose all games in Australia and won’t win a series until 2010 - ex girlfriend Veena Malik. While it may sound like an attempt at revenge from a jilted lover, it has a ring of truth to it. If anyone had watched the TV show that pitted the two against each other in May this year, it becomes easily apparent that Asif was the liar.
*Mohammad Asif’s ex-girl friend has launched a scathing attack at the bowler and accused him of being directly involved in match-fixing.
As a panelist on a news channel, Asif’s former girl friend Veena Malik accused the fast bowler of being ‘criminal minded’ and a ‘serial match-fixer.’
Here’s what she had to say:
-Asif reportedly told her that Pakistan will not win a series until 2010
-She has accused Asif of bribing an Indian doctor during his doping trial at the Indian Premier League
-He is supposed to have told Mohammad Amir “I have had more court cases than your age (18)”
-He reportedly told Veena Malik: “Stop praying…we will not win a single match during the tour to Australia.”
Asif’s alleged dealings:
“He went to Bangkok to meet some bookmakers within a notice of 24 hours. This is when we were in a relationship. The conversation on the phone before the tour of Australia was specifically about fixing.”
-Kalim Imran supposedly provided Asif with nandrolone injections. Malik claims she had asked what had happened to Asif’s performance to which Asif replied, “That wasn’t me, that was the nandrolone.”
-Indian bookie’s incoming text: Asif used to send texts to Dhiraj Dixit from his servant’s numbers.
Conversation: Dhiraj says: “I can give you 40,000 dollars for this deal. Asif says: “No I want 200,000 dollars.” Dhiraj says: I would like some more team members for this deal.”
She adds: “After this Asif disappeared for a day. After some checks I found out he had gone to Bangkok and returned within 24 hours. Upon returning and finding out that I had discovered something, Asif became a little shady and we started having fights.”
-When Pakistan started losing in Australia, I jokingly said, “For god’s sake win a match.” To this he replied, “We won’t win anything until 2010.”
Veena Malik, a former model and TV host, has said she is willing to part of any hearing related to match-fixing and will surely testify.
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http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/cricket/08-ex-girlfriend-says-asif-a-serial-fixer-ts-05
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Michael Holding almost in tears while commentating on that ‘huge’ no-ball by Aamer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhfYq0xA7C4&feature=player_embedded