Pakistan Trio Suspended by ICC in Spot Fixing Scandal

[ali0786]

Amir should just come clean and take his ban on the chin, he will be back at 23 when most bowlers would probably just be starting their international career. The other two have no chance.

Amir has already admitted his guilt.

[saneindian]

At some stage, the Paki press would surely start talking about how India is the epicenter of all such betting scandals, fully knowing how well they have been sheltering the grand daddy of illegal betting in the sub continent. Additionally, they will also defend their cheaters saying how poorly they are played and how not playing in the IPL forces them to fall in such traps laid by Indian bookies.

[Utalk]

Ban them all for life. Don't give a toss about umar Akmal being super talented if he sold his country should be chucked out.

[Sidhoni]

Team Strategy Meeting .. AKA planning how to lose matches featuring Butt and the Akmals -

:haha::haha:

[saneindian]

Ban them all for life. Don't give a toss about umar Akmal being super talented if he sold his country should be chucked out.

Did the PCB conduct any internal inquiry about the Akmals and Wahab Riaz after they were named by Mazhar? And another key question is why did the PCB continue to let Mazhar manage players despite objections from the team management?

[kabira]

I wouldn't be surprised if directly or indirectly few of their board member/team management were involved as well.

[Cricket Tragic]

More matches were to be fixed Pakistan were to throw at least one limited-over international on the 2010 tour of England, a court was told on Monday, and only the timing of the News of the World's expose seemed to prevent such a result from occurring. Mazhar Mahmood, the undercover investigative journalist who sparked the alleged spot-fixing controversy, was appearing as a prosecution witness at Southwark Crown Court on the fourth day in the trial involving former captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who are alleged to have bowled pre-determined no balls. They deny the charges. A recording from secret microphones of agent and alleged conspirator Mazhar Majeed was played in chunks throughout Monday and one aspect dealt with the intention to fix results during either the five-match 50-over series or the two Twenty20 games. It can be safely assumed he was not referring to Test matches because in earlier recordings Majeed had told of how important it was that his "best friend" and key client Salman Butt won Tests so he remained in his position for a long time. Shahid Afridi was Pakistan captain in the 20 and 50-over formats at that time. Those matches followed the four-match Test series that England won 3-1. The newspaper, though, exposed the alleged corruption on the Saturday of the fourth and final Test at Lord's. The jury, also following the recording with a written transcript, heard Majeed's vague boasts about his corrupt intentions. "We have been working towards the next month for a long time," Majeed was heard saying in one segment. And in a previous sequence on the same recording, he had said to the reporter while chatting in a parked car off the Gloucester Road in London: "We're doing two results soon, within a month." The journalist confirmed his intentions by asking: "So Pakistan will lose and then what?" Majeed replied: "Pakistan will lose but you know when Pakistan, like a game, you know as a cricket game it goes backwards and forwards, yeah, it's your responsibility to put it on at the right times because there's gonna be times in that game, it doesn't matter what the odds are before, there's gonna be times in that game when Pakistan are the favourites." When Mahmood inquired whether there would be any mistakes and if there was a danger that his (fictitious) Far East backers would lose their money on false information, Majeed said: "They will do their job, don't worry." Majeed was also heard to earlier promise the journalist "four or five brackets for the Lord's Test" and two no-balls, which were meant as a tester for Majeed to demonstrate his influence over the players he controlled. A bracket is a ten-over sequence when bettors might punt on a certain amount of runs in a set period or a number of no-balls, for instance. Majeed said a fixed bracket cost between Ž£50,000 and Ž£80,000. The jury was told last week that Majeed priced a fixed Test result at Ž£1 million, a fixed one-day international at Ž£450,000 and a Twenty20 international at Ž£400,000.

[VRV Singh]

Australian and Pakistani cricket stars rigged their games, according to a cricket agent accused of taking bribes, a London court has been told. At the corruption trial of former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, covert recordings were played of agent Mazhar Majeed speaking to an undercover journalist. Mr Majeed said match fixing had been happening for years, and named players. The Australians were "the biggest" when it came to fixing matches, he said. Prosecutors allege that Mr Majeed, from Croydon, south London, conspired with Mr Butt, 27, and Mr Asif, 28, to fix parts of the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan last August. The pair deny the charges. At the trial, which began in Southwark Crown Court last week, Mr Majeed also boasted to News of the World undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood that he knew US and British actors and sportsmen who could lend some glamour to a proposed tournament. Mr Mahmood was posing as a rich Indian businessman seeking major international players for a tournament. He appeared in court behind a screen on Monday. He discussed match-fixing with Mr Majeed on 18 August last year. Mr Majeed said in the recording of that meeting: "It's been happening for centuries. It's been happening for years. [Pakistani cricketers] Wasim, Waqar, Ijaz Ahmed, Moin Khan - they all did it." He said Pakistan cricket players were paid "peanuts", with "very big money" to be made from match-fixing. "I've been doing this with the Pakistani team now for about two-and-a-half years, and we've made masses and masses of money," he told the reporter. "You can make absolute millions." Mr Majeed also said that Australian players would fix "brackets", a set period of a match on which punters bet, for example, how many runs will be scored. "The Australians, they are the biggest. They have 10 brackets a game," he said in the tape played to the court. He told Mr Mahmood it would cost between Ž£50,000 and Ž£80,000 for information about a bracket, Ž£400,000 to fix the result of a 20-20 game, Ž£450,000 for a one-day international and Ž£1 million to rig the outcome of a Test match. And he said it was the Pakistan cricketers who asked him to get involved in match-fixing: "I was friends with them for four or five years. And then they said this happens and I said 'really?' and I was so innocent of it." At a meeting between Mr Majeed and the reporter on 19 August, he said he would arrange for two deliberate no-balls to be bowled by Pakistan players at the Oval Test match against England in return for Ž£20,000. In the end the deliberate no-balls were not bowled during the Oval game, the court heard. At that meeting, Mr Majeed also told the reporter that some of the Pakistani cricketers had agreed they would deliberately lose a forthcoming game, the court heard. "We've got one result already planned, and that's coming within the next three-and-a-half weeks... Pakistan will lose," the agent said on the tape. "You know as a cricket game, it goes backwards and forwards. It's your responsibility to put it on (place your bets) at the right time." The trial continues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15247144

[TheWall]

Is there capital punishment in England?

[BERGKAMP]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15246862 corrupt pakis

[Cricket Tragic]

Reading through the article on Crapinfo, I'm amazed how little money these guys make. He is the captain ffs. Butt spoke about an advert contract for £ 800 a match. :WTF: Does anyone have the figures on how much Dhoni/Tendulkar's endorsement contracts are worth?

[SachDan]

http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showthread.php?t=147046&highlight=dhoni

[Cricket Tragic]

Cheers

Butt said he had been happy with Majeed as his agent because he brought him generous earnings from endorsements outside of his cricket duties. These included payments of Ž£16,000 and Ž£30,000 for endorsing Majeed companies Blue Sky and Capital Cricket. Butt also was heard to say on the tapes that Majeed arranged a sportswear and cricket equipment deal for him with Adidas that earned him Ž£800 per international match plus bonuses. "He brought me things like the Adidas contract," Butt said, "which was a big thing to me as no other Pakistani had that." The opening batsman also revealed how Majeed had "talked about" a potential sponsorship agreement with Tag Heur watches, in which he would received a new Ž£3,000 watched every three months, plus money after six months. http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/536549.html

[ganeshran]

Cheers

Compare that to useless cowlasher Saurabh Tiwary who earned 4700 pounds for every run he scored in IPL 2011 B->

[Alchemist]

You might be super talented, but when you fix matches, you are plying with peoples emotion. You are actually selling them. I am pretty sure, like many Indians, pakistan victory might be bringing some short lived happiness in lot of pakistani people's otherwise miserable lives. This kind of behavior should not be justified. They should be banned for ever. I will never see Azharuddin in good light. For me, he will always be a traitor.

[Rajiv]

Awesome drama played by Butt and Asif..Bolly Calling, and how PCB is involved

[Cricket Tragic]

The former Pakistan captain admitted there was “terrible” corruption in the Lord’s Test match against England – but claimed he was not involved. Butt launched a cut throat defence by suggesting his opening bowlers may have been part of the fixing conspiracy, run by his agent, but as captain he “did not have a clue” about it.

[Cricket Tragic]

The lawyer of Mohammad Asif accused the player's former captain and fellow defendant at the alleged spot-fixing trial, Salman Butt, of "pressurising him" before he bowled his infamous no-ball at the Lord's Test last year Circus :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[saneindian]

Why haven't these clowns been put behind bars yet? UK courts wasting their precious time in an open and shut case.

[Asim]

^ sahi bat hey