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Re: Arrest Over Cricket ‘Match-Fixing’ At Lords
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statement to kakay wali hi di hay
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http://sify.com/news/kapil-urges-imran-khan-to-save-pakistan-cricket-news-national-kjctaedhjaf.html
****Kapil urges Imran Khan to save Pakistan cricket **
**2010-09-02 19:00:00
Former India captain Kapil Dev Thursday called for severe punishment for Pakistan players found guilty in the spot-fixing controversy, and asked legendary Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan to take the initiative to save the game in his country.
‘I appeal to Imran Khan to take charge of the current situation in Pakistan. Being the cleanest player, it’s he who can save and look after Pakistan cricket,’ Kapil Dev told newspersons on the sidelines of a programme here.
‘None of us want the game in Pakistan to be finished, as this is one country that has produced some of the finest cricketers.’
Kapil said he felt sad for the Pakistan cricketers but the guilty need to be ‘severely punished’.
‘I do feel sorry for Pakistani cricketers and Pakistan cricket. But at the same time, the alleged ones should be severely punished if proved guilty,’ said Kapil, the best Indian all-rounder ever.
He appealed to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to see to it that the game’s image was not spoiled due to the activities of some ‘negative people.’
‘I’m not qualified to say ICC should ban players. But I appeal to the governing body to look after the game and make sure right people investigate the current issue. It should ensure that betting scandals carried out by a handful of negative people do not taint the wonderful game.’
Kapil also appealed youngsters to never bet on cricket.
–Indo-Asian News Sevice
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PCB hamain aur kitna zaleeel karwai gi?
The International Cricket Council has suspended Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, the three players implicated in the Lord’s spot-fixing scandal, under the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Code. The move came on the same day Pakistan announced that the players had opted to voluntarily withdraw from the forthcoming limited overs series with England.
An ICC press release said that the three players had been charged with “various offences under Article 2 of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code for Players and Player Support Personnel relating to alleged irregular behavior during, and in relation to, the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord’s last month”.
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ICC defends decision to suspend Pakistan cricketers
Cricket council rebuts conspiracy charge as players accused of spot-betting scam are interviewed by police under caution
The International Cricket Council today defended its decision to charge the three Pakistan cricketers accused of being at the centre of an alleged betting scam.
The three men were today formally interviewed by police under caution for the first time. Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Test captain Salman Butt were interviewed separately throughout the day at Kilburn police station in north London. They were later released without charge.
Speaking outside the station after they had left, their lawyer, Elizabeth Robertson, said they had attended voluntarily and at no time were they under arrest. She said the men would continue to co-operate fully with police and the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has already charged them under their anti-corruption code and provisionally banned them from playing in any match.
While police decide whether there is enough evidence to charge the players with conspiracy to commit fraud, the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) is conducting its own parallel investigation. ICC investigators will not question the three players until they receive permission from the police and are finalizing an “information sharing protocol” in order to be able to pool evidence where appropriate.
The police seized money and mobile phones from the players last Sunday and are investigating any possible link between bank notes found in their possession and the money handed to a middle-man as part of the News of the World sting.
But one difficulty Scotland Yard would face in attempting to prosecute the players is proving any money they received from Mazhar Majeed was taken in return for deliberately bowling no-balls.
The Pakistani players have told friends they are prepared to tell detectives they did receive payments from Majeed, but this was entirely proper because he was their agent.
Majeed, arrested last weekend by police over the News of the World allegations, and by Customs over money-laundering allegations, is the agent for all three players and responsible for organising their sponsorship deals.
** The players could claim that they believed any money he paid them was from sponsorship deals secured in his role as their agent.**
** At least one of the players did not have a UK bank account and Majeed has represented members of Pakistan’s test side in this role for several years.**
Last night, the ICC moved to provisionally suspend the trio after charging them with “various offences” under the governing body’s code of conduct.
Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the recently appointed chairman of ACSU, and ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat insisted the offences were not “the tip of the iceberg”.
But Lorgat conceded that the sport faced its worst crisis since the Hansie Cronje match-fixing affair a decade ago.
Pakistan high commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan this morning accused the ICC of “playing to the public gallery” by suspending the three cricketers.
“They have done the wrong thing. When there’s a live police inquiry, this takes precedence over both the ICC, civil or regulatory investigations and any disciplinary investigations,” Hasan told the BBC.
“To take action now is unhelpful, premature and unnecessary considering the players had already voluntarily withdrawn from playing. The ICC had no business to take this action.”
He said the ICC had “no authority” to intervene and has previously claimed the players were “set up” by the News of the World, which is expected to publish further revelations on Sunday. On the same day, England will face Pakistan in the first of two Twenty20 matches in Cardiff.
Lorgat insisted that the proper processes had been followed and denied Hasan’s conspiracy
This particular incident with the three players is unrelated to the challenge that we’ve got in keeping Pakistan involved as a full member of the International Cricket Council," he said. The country has been unable to play at home since a terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore last year.
“So I wouldn’t want to link the two, and claims.” I certainly wouldn’t subscribe to the view that there is some sort of conspiracy around Pakistan cricket."
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The Pakistani players have told friends they are prepared to tell detectives they did receive payments from Majeed, but this was entirely proper because he was their agent.
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** The players could claim that they believed any money he paid them was from sponsorship deals secured in his role as their agent.**
Thats exactly what I was thinking they'll claim because in the video Mazhar doesn't talk to anyone of them about this deal, all he does is hello hi on the phone with these guys. There is a lot more proof that ICC would need. The suspension of these players is most likely as result of ECB/ACB pressure as fkhan2 and others said.
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if PCB had acted quickly and suspended them earlier than ICC would not have acted. they were forced into it because of the stupidity of PCB. The English players were already threatning not to play if these three played.
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ICC put England in a fix over Mushtaq Ahmed’s role within the team
Mushtaq Ahmed’s role with England is again under scrutiny after it emerged that the International Cricket Council advised them not to appoint him because he was tainted by corruption.
The spot-fixing crisis that has rocked the game this week has not only embroiled Pakistan but also highlighted the fact that several leading ex-players who have been implicated in corruption scandals, like Mushtaq and current Pakistan coach Waqar Younis, are still very much involved in the game.
Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief execut ive, and Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the head of their anticorruption unit, talked on Friday of the ‘biggest scandal cricket has faced since Hansie Cronje’ after suspending Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif for their alleged manipulation of the Lord’s Test.
Lorgat then reflected on how he warned the ECB about employing Mushtaq as spin bowling coach at the start of last year because of the condemnation of him by Justice Qayyum in his report into matchfixing involving Pakistan 10 years ago.
‘We highlight anybody we’ve got on a list who has been labelled in one way or another, so I wrote to the ECB and issued them with a cautionary suggestion that they had to do due diligence on Mushtaq, but they were satisfied with the appointment,’ said Lorgat.
‘We at the ICC do not employ people who have been tainted in the past but the ECB are entitled to make their own decisions.’
Qayyum was unequivocal in his criticism of the former Pakistan and Sussex leg-spinner.
‘There are sufficient grounds to cast strong doubt on Mushtaq Ahmed,’ the Pakistani judge summarised in his report in 2000. ‘He has brought the name of the Pakistan team into disrepute with, inter alia, associating with gamblers.
'This commission recommends that Mushtaq Ahmed not be given any office of responsibility in the team or on the board.’
Despite that Mushtaq, 40, worked as assistant coach to Bob Woolmer with the Pakistan team and was then appointed to England’s staff by Peter Moores. Now ‘Mushy’ has become a very popular member of the England set-up.
‘I hope this doesn’t stay with me for the rest of my career,’ said Mushtaq when he first joined England. ‘There wasn’t any evidence against me. If there had been I wouldn’t have worked for Pakistan.’
Mushtaq is not working with the England team at Cardiff ahead of Sunday’s first Twenty20 international against his native country but will be involved in the build-up to the Ashes.
Andy Flower, the England team director, said he is still happy to have him as part of his team.
‘I am very comfortable with Mushtaq,’ said Flower. ‘He’s been brilliant for us as a team. He’s been a good coach, a good example to our players and support staff — and I’m looking forward to him working with us again when he joins us in Australia. He’s a lovely man.’
Meanwhile, Butt, Asif and Aamer, who is set to be dropped from the list of contenders for the ICC’s emerging player of the year award, were on Friday interviewed by police in Kilburn, north London before later being released without charge.
Sir Ronnie, the former chief constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, said they had been suspended because they had ‘a really arguable case to answer’.
‘At the worst end of the scale, if guilt is found, then the punishment can range right up to a life ban from the game,’ said Sir Ronnie before warning it would take some time before any investigation is concluded.
He added that he was considering adding to the ranks of the anticorruption unit in a bid to stamp out any other potential corruption in the game. Sir Ronnie did, however, claim that the problem of ‘spot-fixing’ is not widespread within the sport.
‘I do not see this as the tip of the iceberg,’ he said.
Pakistan have called up batsman Asad Shafiq and 7ft 1in fast bowler Mohammad Irfan, the tallest man ever to play professional cricket, to bolster their one-day squad after the suspensions.
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Pakistan turns spot-fixing scam into India bashing
The Pakistani cricket spot-fixing scandal is an Indian conspiracy, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain, said on Friday, after the International Cricket Council (ICC), invoking its anti-corruption code, provisionally suspended the tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Aamer from playing international cricket.
Hasan declared the ICC had “no business” to suspend the players when a police investigation was still in progress, adding ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat reached his decision soon after a telephonic talk with Sharad Pawar, ICC president.
*“I heard him (Lorgat) talking to Pawar. I don’t know what transpired between them but immediately after that, he left my office and prepared a five-page notice and handed it to the players,” said Hasan. “There seems to be a conspiracy to keep Pakistan out.”
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In a separate interview to an Indian news channel, Hasan also claimed the three players under the scanner had been “taken for a ride” by the alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed — whose revelations during the sting operation by a UK tabloid sparked off the controversy — who in turn had strong connections with Indian bookies.
“The British press says ‘Asian bookies’ but if they were from Pakistan they (the British media) would have called them Pakistanis, which means some Indian bookies are involved in it. This Majeed allegedly defrauded these Indian bookies and so the newspaper investigated him through their sources,” Hasan told NDTV.
"I cannot understand how Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London has come to this incorrect conclusion,” Pawar responded to HT from New York. “The fact that Haroon (Lorgat) is regularly briefing me is true, because that is the normal way of conducting business, with the chief executive briefing the president.”
Lorgat too responded sharply to Hasan’s allegations. “The very reason I met High Commissioner Wajid Hasan was to give a clear indication that we are coming to a conclusion and that we will be serving a notice,” said Lorgat. “I differ with his interpretation of the meet.”
Explaining the suspension, ICC’s anti-corruption boss Sir Ronnie Flanagan said it did not imply the ICC considered the three guilty. “They [Butt, Asif and Amir] have a really arguable case to answer in our disciplinary arena but that is not the same as coming, in any sense, to a finding of guilt on their behalf,” he said.
The players now have 14 days in which to ask for a hearing from the ICC, which then has to be convened within three months.
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The cricket playboys: At the wheel of fixer’s £130,000 Aston Martin, Pakistan’s captain before cheat scandal broke
Relaxing in a £130,000 sports car with the roof down, this is the Pakistan cricket captain at the centre of the betting scandal talking to its alleged mastermind.
Test captain Salman Butt sits in the driver’s seat of the Aston Martin DB9 belonging to Mazhar Majeed – the millionaire agent to Pakistan’s cricketers – who crouches in the back as wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal sits in the passenger seat.
The photo, taken outside the Pakistan team’s London hotel in July, provides an indication that Butt and his agent Majeed have formed a close relationship.
High life: Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal in the luxury car owned by Mazhar Majeed (back seat)
Majeed talks to the players in the car before getting out to make a phone call in private.
He then takes a seat on a wall outside the hotel as he speaks with Butt. Majeed and Butt face each other as they speak before teammate Akmal joins to listen to the conversation.
The photos emerged as investigators revealed that Majeed ran up a four-figure bill on his mobile phone in the days leading up to Pakistan’s Test series against England.
Calls to suspected bookmakers and their associates in Dubai and the Far East were made from mobile phones seized by police, officials believe.
Chat: Butt and Majeed outside the team hotel in July
Several calls are said to have been made in the days leading up to last week’s Lord’s Test between Pakistan and England, which is at the centre of four separate match-fixing and money laundering inquiries.
Investigators say there was intense telephone usage, running into several thousand pounds, by Majeed in the days surrounding major matches by the team over a two-year period – fuelling fears that other Tests may be implicated.
They said that during August, when Pakistan played four matches against England, British-born Majeed, 35, ran up a ‘substantial four-digit’ bill on a mobile number that had hardly been used in the nine months since a large number of calls were made at the time of the team’s controversial tour of Australia.
News of the enquiries emerged as police in Pakistan carried out raids in Faisalabad where a relative of Majeed was reported to have been arrested.
More than a dozen police officers in the city are said to be implicated and police spokesman Rana Mohammad Akran said computers had been seized and links with cricket gambling established to Dubai and the UK.
The three players implicated in the scandal – Butt, 25, and bowlers Mohammad Asif, 27, and Mohammad Aamer, 18 – were questioned separately under caution by Scotland Yard detectives in London yesterday. They were released without charge and without condition.
Their mobiles and laptop computers were taken by police in the aftermath of allegations that three no-balls were bowled at pre-determined points on the first two days of the match.
Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Aamer arrives at Kilburn police station to face questioning by police. Along with Test captain Salman Butt (below), he was later released without charge or conditions
The Daily Mail revealed yesterday that marked notes paid by undercover reporters working for the News of the World as part of the sting are believed to have been found in Butt’s belongings.
Large quantities of cash were also found in rooms in the hotel where the Pakistan team stayed, the Mail has learned, but it is unclear whether they were from the £150,000 allegedly paid to Majeed. In secretly recorded discussions, Majeed, who claimed to have set up Swiss bank accounts to pay fees to players, boasted how money was laundered through a football club he owned.
Majeed, who was arrested and bailed by police, has also been questioned along with his wife Sheliza Manji, 35, and a 49-year-old Londoner by Customs officials investigating whether more than £20million has been ‘washed’ through Croydon Athletic Football Club.
The cricketing authorities are braced for further revelations this weekend involving other matches.
The three players engulfed in the scandal insist they are innocent but have been suspended from all matches by the International Cricket Council, the sport’s governing body.
Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London has attacked the ICC over its actions, accusing it of ‘just playing to the public gallery’.
Wajid Hasan said: ‘I met the cricketers for two hours, cross-questioned them, got to the bottom of it and concluded that they were innocent. The ICC had no business to take this action.’
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Hero: Who is a criminal?
Sidekick: The one who commits crime.
Hero: Wrong, criminal is the one who gets caught.
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Guys, can't ICC suspend Ijaz Butt......just curious!
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Guys, can't ICC suspend Ijaz Butt......just curious!
I wish !
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Following last weekend’s match-fixing world exclusive, the News of the World is to reveal sensational new revelations over 18 pages of tomorrow’s newspaper.
This includes:
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The News of the World publishing full details of the ENTIRE investigation starting in January this year including printing the transcripts of every meeting, conversation, email and text exchange.
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An explosive claim by a member of the Pakistan touring team that some of his team-mates ARE cheats. Opening batsman Yasir Hameed tells us bent teammates were fixing “almost every match”. He said: "They’ve been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks.
"They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages.
“It makes me angry because I’m playing my best and they are trying to lose.”
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How the ICC are now probing a FOURTH Pakistan touring player over match-rigging claims. The News of the World is not naming this player for legal reasons.
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The three suspended Pakistan players face a staggering TWENTY THREE ICC charges between them - each charge runs to six pages.
** Exposing the rantings of the Pakistan High Commissioner who outrageously claimed that the News of the World had “set up” Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif. CCTV evidence proves the meeting with fixer Mazhar Majeed took place before any “no balls” had been bowled. Dated receipts and emails also prove the money handover happened BEFORE the “no balls”*
- Pakistan Captain Salman Butt was warned FIVE TIMES about his responsibilities to report any irregular contact with outside agencies. And investigators have recovered between £10,000 and £15,000 of marked News of the World bills from the Pakistan captain’s hotel room.
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**Yasir Hameed has simply refused and said he is disturbed and dont want further comment on it. He denied of giving such interview to the Newspaper and confirmed that whatever quoted has been made by themselves and there is no truth in such news.
Yasir said if there are any proof then let them prove them !
Yasir was answering to the question on-air at GEO TV.**
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Man NOTW is getting on ur heads now 
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Hameed reveals he was offered £100,000
Cricinfo staff
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The News of the World has published a host of new revelations in the match-fixing scandal including that ICC are investigating an unnamed fourth Pakistan player, while Yasir Hameed has told the newspaper that he was asked by a bookmaker to help fix a Test for £100,000 but turned down the money
Hameed, who played in two of the recent Tests against England, allegedly told the newspaper “almost every match” has been fixed and has slammed his team-mates’ actions. “They’ve been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks,” he told the newspaper. "They were doing it [fixing] in almost every match.
“God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages. It makes me angry because I’m playing my best and they are trying to lose.”
“They are not aware of anything like this happening,” Yawar Saeed, Pakistan’s manager, told Cricinfo. He also added that since the end of the Test series, Hameed had left the Pakistan squad, and he did not know of his whereabouts.
Also revealed in an eight-page special produced by the newspaper they outline the charge sheets against Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir who have been questioned by police twice this week since the initial story broke last weekend with the trio facing 23 charges between them.
**And in relation to the Pakistan High Commissioner’s belief that the players were “set up” the News of the World will publish emails, receipts and CCTV evidence that prove the meetings between the undercover reporter and Mazhar Majeed were filmed before the Lord’s Test.
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http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/current/story/475778.html
**If NOTW can prove that the tapes were made before the match, the game is up for these three.
The only point of solace, if we can call it that is that no new scandal will break tomorrow, just more revelations about these three.
**
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No No, we gave ourselves handedover to the media personnel by doing the worst anyone can imagine.. Now its media’s turn to play with us the way they want 
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Why would “Scotland Yard” be after them for ages? 