Here we go again. He concedes himself that match fixing has been stamped out by ICC so why stir it up again, except for making a quick buck from the book. :rolleyes:
Latif reopens ‘fixing’ saga](BBC SPORT | Cricket | Latif reopens 'fixing' saga)
Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has promised “sensational” revelations about match-fixing in a new book.
He claims “many players and officials” were involved, but will not name names until the book comes out in September.
**Latif conceded that match-fixing had been stamped out by the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit. **
But he believes betting on cricket, which he describes as “fancy fixing”, is still part of the game.
Latif is a long-standing campaigner against match-fixing, having accused team-mates of throwing matches during a 1995 tour.
He retired from international cricket in 1998 but returned to the Pakistan team three years later and was appointed captain in the wake of last year’s World Cup.
The 35-year-old was soon at loggerheads with the Pakistan Cricket Board after writing to the ICC about fancy fixing, which involves betting on the first 15 overs of one-day internationals.
He was handed a five-match ban last September for claiming a catch in a Test against Bangladesh which he had not taken cleanly and replaced as captain by Inzamam-ul-Haq.
His international career appears to be over after he was left out of a provisional squad for next month’s home series against India.
But publication of his autobiography will ensure his name remains in the spotlight.
“It won’t be an ordinary book. It will have lots of stuff on match-fixing,” he said.
“There will be lots of off the field incidents in the book. It won’t be like others in which players only give details on how they scored runs, took catches and claimed wickets.”
