ICC: We have evidence that 2 Pakistani players involved in match fixing. PCB admits

[Desi Cartman]

KARACHI: Pakistan’s wicket-keeper batsman Kamran could currently be under investigation for suspected match-fixing, well-placed sources told ‘The News’ on Thursday. According to the sources, Kamran was axed from the Pakistan squad for the two Twenty20 Internationals against England in Dubai because there are suspicions that he might have deliberately dropped catches during the second Test in Sydney against Australia last month. If he fails to prove his innocence, Kamran may be overlooked for the ICC World Twenty20 Championship in the Caribbean where Pakistan will be looking to defend their title this May, said the source. The 28-year-old was dropped from the third and final match of the series in Hobart for the first time in 42 Tests and five years but later returned for the limited-overs games against the Aussies. He smashed a 33-ball 64 in the tour-ending Twenty20 International at the Melbourne Cricket Ground but was still dropped from the touring party for the Dubai matches. Officially, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that Kamran was overlooked for the brief Dubai visit because of his poor showing in Australia as well as his statements after the Sydney Test in which he insisted he will play in Hobart in spite of the fact the PCB had rushed young glovesman Sarfaraz Ahmed to Australia for the final Test. However, according to the source, the main reason why Kamran was left out of the Dubai series was because he is under investigation for suspected match-fixing. “Otherwise how can you leave out a player who had scored 64 from 33 balls against Australia in his last match,” said the source. “He (Kamran) is a suspect.” Kamran, who was Pakistan’s vice-captain in the Test series against Australia, came under intense fire for his pathetic showing behind the stumps in the Sydney Test which Pakistan lost by 36 runs. He dropped Mike Hussey three times in that Test allowing the veteran batter to score a match-winning hundred. The fumbling keeper also floored Peter Siddle besides wasting a run-out opportunity against Shane Watson and was later singled out as the biggest villain behind Pakistan’s defeat from a seemingly-winning position. The menace of match-fixing is nothing new for Pakistan cricket. Last October, National Assembly’s sports committee chief Jamshed Dast accused the Pakistan team of deliberately losing to Australia to knock old rivals India out of the Champions Trophy in South Africa. However, the committee later cleared the team of any wrongdoings. Back in 2000, former Pakistan captain Salim Malik and medium pacer Ata-ur Rehman were found guilty of match-fixing by Justice Malik Qayyum. They were both banned for life following a year long investigation into the allegations. The inquiry was launched in response to charges of betting and match-fixing against several of Pakistan’s top cricketers, including former captains Wasim and Malik, spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Mushtaq Ahmed, Rehman and batsman Ijaz Ahmed. The inquiry investigated several allegations of corruption dating back to 1994, including one made by Australian cricketers Shane Warne and Mark Waugh. The Australian players accused Malik of offering them bribes to perform poorly during an Australian tour of Pakistan. In recent times, there have been calls from various quarters for the implementation of the recommendations made by Justice Qayyum to eradicate the menace of match-fixing from Pakistan cricket. “Match-fixing is still the root cause of the problems faced by our cricket,” Senator Enver Baig told this correspondent. “It has to be tackled seriously otherwise there is no hope for Pakistan cricket,” added Baig, a former member of the Senate’s sports committee.

:--D http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=226228

[vvvslaxman]

:haha: Only if Kamran takes a catch you can charge him with his match fixing He has been dropping left and right all his life. Padosis have this hallucination that they cannot lose any matches to anyone because they are "taulented". If they do, it must be match fixing. These numskulls never cease to amaze us.

[Ultimate_Game]

Love the way pakis react. It's as if they can never be beaten and every defeat is because the match was fixed ;) And as vvslaxaman has pointed out, going by Akmal's past performance we would have been surprized if he had taken the catches :haha:

[Sachinism]

Love the way pakis react. It's as if they can never be beaten and every defeat is because the match was fixed ;) And as vvslaxaman has pointed out, going by Akmal's past performance we would have been surprized if he had taken the catches :haha:

Exactly, its not like they're world-beaters. People need to understand they're going through a re-building phase, they can't win all games (or in their case, any games)

[TheWall]

The Circus troupe :hysterical::hysterical:

[Gunner_Mania]

PCB handed match-fixing evidence by ICC The PCB has received evidence from the ICC regarding the involvement of Pakistan players in match-fixing. Ijaz Butt, the chairman of PCB, said the evidence concerned old cases. More to follow http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/450125.html

[Bradman99]

Love the way pakis react. It's as if they can never be beaten and every defeat is because the match was fixed ;) And as vvslaxaman has pointed out, going by Akmal's past performance we would have been surprized if he had taken the catches :haha:

Haha so true

[Sachinism]

Poyz pwned!

[Sachinism]

"It would be foolish to say no match-fixing takes place," Butt said. "But the fact is, it is very difficult to prove this. So I am not going to take any names right now. "We are waiting for a report from the inquiry committee we have set up to probe into the team's poor performances in Australia. Once the inquiry committee gives its report I will comment further on this issue."

So how can this be an old case. They just played Australia

[king2be98]

Yet again, another thread opened with a title in mind but only Pakistanis being insulted. One man decided to fix a game, if he is guilty, only he is guilty, why the need to hurl uneccessary abuse? I find it ridiculous how even kids can be so childish as to want to hurl abuse and insults left right and centre. But for young adults? Come on, just grow up. As for the max fixing allegation, if it is true and I highly doubt it based on his poor keeping anyway, then he should serve at the bare minimum a 5 year ban from all forms of cricket and a life ban from international cricket.

[EnterTheVoid]

Yet again' date=' another thread opened with a title in mind but only Pakistanis being insulted. [/quote'] You repeat this so often, why don't you make it your signature ?

[The Outsider]

Yet again, another thread opened with a title in mind but only Pakistanis being insulted. One man decided to fix a game, if he is guilty, only he is guilty, why the need to hurl uneccessary abuse? I find it ridiculous how even kids can be so childish as to want to hurl abuse and insults left right and centre. But for young adults? Come on, just grow up.

Really, what are you on about? Abuse? Where did that happen in this thread? Pakistanis being insulted? The initial thread title had only Akmal's name on it - another thread was opened and merged with it which had the title and article taken verbatim from cricinfo - perhaps you should register your displeasure with them instead. And for what it's worth, most posters here don't even think Akmal fixed the match!

[EnterTheVoid]

Shwetabh, that guy says that about every thread he posts in, pakis attacked here, pakis attacked there, insulted in this thread, insulted in that thread blah blah blah

[coffee_rules]

Never say never again.. Pakistan news PCB handed match-fixing evidence by ICC On a day of considerable confusion, the PCB said it had received evidence from the ICC regarding the involvement of Pakistan players in match-fixing. Initially, after a press conference in which Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, seemed to indicate the two players were from the current squad, he told Cricinfo that the cases, incidents and players involved were old ones. http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/450125.html guess who the two are?

[coffee_rules]

I would say Kamran and Malik. Oops saw a thread already..Somebody pls merge it.

[Desi Cartman]

It will be EPIC luls time if its miya Mohd Yousuf and afridi :hehe:

[Mamu]

You know in a circus --- The Artists (Gymansts), The Clowns take turns to provide constant entertainment, -- such is the case with PCB (well just not PCB -- everything related to that country). Occassionally an artist shows up like Umar Akmal or an odd spell of good bowling by Aamer, but The Clowns are on the show-- regularly. If it is not Ball Biting by the Lion, it is a Monkey doing Drugs, If it is not that, it is the Walrus getting STDs because it poked its nose in the wrong hole, If it is not that -- it is the Chimpanzee getting involved in Match fixing, if all else fails -- the Ring Master of the Team (the coach) -- making insane comments about how he would go about taming the Lions and the Tigers but everually getting his Butt trampled by the Elephant (Ijaz Butt). This circus should be a highly rated Entertainment Show and the best of all it is FREE show!

[Sachinism]

Pakistan cricket plunged itself into wholesale confusion as the sniff of match-fixing rolled around once again, this time as a particularly nasty smell. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) initially seemed to indicate that two players from the current squad were involved in match-fixing, but later insisted that the players, cases and incidents were old ones and that nobody from the current squad was involved. An ICC spokesperson though, told Cricinfo, "The ICC is unaware of the existence of any such reports." The day began with a report in the News, a Pakistan daily, that a player from the current squad was being investigated by a six-man inquiry committee over allegations of match-fixing on Pakistan's recent tour to Australia. Ijaz Butt, the board chairman, was asked about the story at a press conference in Lahore later in the afternoon. Butt said that he would only comment once the inquiry committee had completed its report and presented its findings. Having sensed something, journalists began to throw match-fixing questions at Butt. To one query, asking whether he believed match-fixing was now eradicated, he said, "I don't say match-fixing is over or is not happening. I just said that it is very difficult to prove." Butt then talked about two players against whom the ICC had provided the PCB with definitive proof that they had been involved in match-fixing, without specifying whether they were from the current squad or not. Despite persistent queries he refused to provide further details. One of the journalists, thinking the players were active ones, asked whether the board would take action against them. "You think we haven't taken action against them?" Butt responded, the implication that the players were current ones, seemingly lost on him. "When we took action, the public accepted that and from my friends sitting around here, no one commented on it." However, when contacted by Cricinfo, Butt categorically denied that the players and cases he was referring to were current ones. Butt said by bringing up the cases, 10-12 years old, he was merely trying to clarify how the ICC procedure on incidents of match-fixing works between the body and boards. "I was telling them of the procedure the ICC has evolved about how such cases work," Butt said. "I was telling them that proving match-fixing charges and allegations can be very difficult. One of our friends in Islamabad made allegations against Younis Khan without any proof and look how that has destroyed his career almost. "If there is any match-fixing allegation you can ask the ICC about them and we did verbally. They communicated the two names to us and showed us incontrovertible proof of it. But I can confirm that the players are not from the current squad. The cases I am referring to are old ones and they didn't happen under our administration." There remains no clarity on whether the present administration asked the ICC for proof - and thus what sparked the need for such a query - or whether this is an old report sent to a previous PCB administration. The last nine months in Pakistan have witnessed persistent rumours of match-fixing. They first surfaced during Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka last year, where the team - or members of it - were allegedly seen in the company of suspected bookies who were in the same hotel, albeit inadvertently. Pakistan's spectacular batting collapses, resulting in two Test losses from positions in which it looked difficult to lose, fuelled the speculation. Then, after returning from a semi-final loss in the Champions Trophy in South Africa, Jamshed Dasti, a member of parliament and head of a committee on sports, levelled allegations against Younis Khan and his team, summoning them to a meeting in which Younis handed in his resignation. Speculation has since continued, centering more often than not around the Sydney Test loss in January and a few other performances in Australia. And just recently, Butt made the same revelations - though about two officials, not players - at a senate committee hearing, though that wasn't as widely reported at the time.

http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/450125.html

[vvvslaxman]

I wonder what evidence they got? Afridi was given money to bite the ball so that he could get suspended fo the next 2 matches? I know Afridi is not that deep lol.

[bear23]

pakistani team should be under year round investigation for drugs, match fixing and ball tampering.