Re: Sydney Test was fixed, we made £1.3 million - Mazhar Majeed
Meanwhile the Aussies are denying it:
“The thing that I’m most worried about if any of this is proven to be true is some of the individual performances that took place in that game,” Ponting said. “You look at Mike Hussey’s second innings hundred and Peter Siddle’s batting and the way he was with Mike Hussey that day and Nathan Hauritz taking five wickets on the final day to win us the game. All of those individual milestones will be tainted as well.”Ponting said he had no inclination that anything was amiss at the time but the manner of Pakistan’s capitulation raised more than a few eyebrows and the Test was investigated by the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, which found no evidence of match-fixing. Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland also said he believes the Sydney Test was clean and that Australia won the game on merit. He reacted to the news of the alleged spot-fixing by calling for a thorough investigation into the incident by both the UK police and the ICC."
http://www.cricinfo.com/ausvpak09/content/current/story/475052.html
He has to deny it for couple of reasons. Majeed claiming it was fixed doesn’t mean that Aussies were party to the fixing. Ponting forgot how Hussey got to his century. Couple of our special batsmen know how well to throw their wickets.