Butt, Asif and Amir dropped for rest of tour...

[IKnowU]

^^ Wouldnt it be funny if they clean sweep all the matches against England :rotfl: All the players play out of their skins and win every game. :hysterical:

[ali0786]

Don't go by the Cricinfo article, they haven't been updated on this yet...these 3-4 cheats won't play.

[Bradman99]

It's funny because I thought Butt was a good choice for captain, seemed to me like he was one of those who could be trusted and was a good bloke.

[kabira]

Someone ( an ex Indian player ) told my aunt in a gym that India will win after following on in Kolkatta, she told me after Aus finished their first batting. I cant remember the guy's name who told her. I have always refused to believe it but I heard it on the 2nd day of the test :((

even Cricketics comes out with such prediction. LOL, that means nothing.

[Desi Cartman]

even Cricketics comes out with such prediction. LOL' date=' that means nothing.[/quote'] Thats what I tell myself :((

[King Tendulkar]

Afretard cheats to win' date=' these bozos cheat to lose. All hail Afretard, the "honest cheat" [/quote'] Sounds like pakistan indulging in their under hand double games. Similar to the they are good terrorists and they are bad terrorists philosophy. When will they learn that they are all bad!

[Chandan]

Thats what I tell myself :((

Desi, How can one fix a match to win?

[King Tendulkar]

Sympathy for amir cos he is young blah blah. Applying that logic kasab should also get sympathy cos young blah blah. You do the crime then must get appropriate punishment. He is lucky as under islamic law they would chop his hands of. Thus life ban seems quite lenient in comparison

[EnterTheVoid]

Agree with KT.

Desi, How can one fix a match to win?

Mazher showed us with the no balls. I'd like to think of the deliberate no balls as "proof of concept", if he can show he can make them deliberately bowl no balls, than its not beyond his control to fix matches, as was the case for the upcoming ODI's where the Pak team were deliberately planning to lose so Afridi can be replaced with Butt.

[TheWall]

If so, when will they be unbanned. Before Ramzan?

[Desi Cartman]

Desi, How can one fix a match to win?

What makes you think only Asian teams can fix matches ? BTW I still think it was a guess .. or thats what I tell myself

[Zap_Brannigan]

Desi, something like India winning after following on against the rampaging Aussies of 2001 is something that happens once in a blue moon. Obviously anyone who bet against Aus would have made millions. So i ask you this, if the biggest profit arises from such fightbacks, how come we dont see it often? Woudlnt something like India losing the 3rd match against Aus when chasing just 150 make an awful lot of money? How about in 99 when we lost 3-0 when we toured Aus...if we had won 1 game then, with that team, it would have been much bigger than the eden gardens win. All people who say crap like this are just attention whoring.

[DomainK]

England 'want Pakistan bet probe players banned' The England team believes the Pakistan players named in the betting probe that has engulfed the tourists should sit out the rest of the tour. England are set to play Pakistan in two Twenty20 matches and five one-dayers. Professional Cricketers Association boss Angus Porter told the BBC the England team thought it "preferable" that those involved did not play. It has also emerged that cricket agent Mazhar Majeed was arrested on Sunday by customs officials. Pakistan players Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Kamran Akmal have all been questioned by police, although Akmal is no longer under investigation. Porter said: "Speaking on behalf of the England team we can say we think it would be preferable if those individuals who are named do not play in the forthcoming series." Pakistan officials are understood to agree that the three players under investigation should miss the series. The man in charge of world cricket has told the BBC the three players should play no further part until investigations are completed. International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: "It is our preference that they do not play." The BBC can confirm that Mr Majeed, the man at the centre of the fixing allegations, and two others were arrested on Sunday as part of what HM Revenue and Customs said was an "ongoing investigation into money laundering". The others arrested were a woman from the Croydon area and a 49-year-old man. They have been questioned and given bail. The arrests came after Mr Majeed had been bailed and released by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers. It is understood the HMRC investigation into Mr Majeed was active before the News of the World story making the fixing allegations was published and that it is a highly complex inquiry. Money laundering investigations will often involve lengthy periods of surveillance to gather evidence before arrest. The ICC has already said the tour will continue and England all-rounder Stuart Broad agreed the series should go ahead. "We shouldn't call it off on the back of an investigation that is ongoing," said Broad, who scored 169 in England's win in the fourth Test at Lord's. "It is up to others to decide if any of the Pakistan players involved in those allegations should miss those games." Broad, whose innings at Lord's was the second-highest by a number nine in Test history, added that he and his team-mates were still in a "state of shock" over the allegations of spot-fixing. "I never dreamt there was anything untoward about our victories," added the Nottinghamshire player, whose record-breaking knock helped seal an innings win and a 3-1 victory in the series. "I have absolutely no doubts that Pakistan were giving everything to try to win that match. "When Pakistan did not come out to practice on the fourth day (Sunday), it did cross our minds that we might have another forfeited Test on our hands. "When we shook hands with their players afterwards - and there was never any suggestion that we weren't going to do that - we just said the normal things even though it seemed wrong somehow to celebrate as strongly as we would normally do." Spinner Graeme Swann said he had no qualms about the two Twenty20 matches and five one-day internationals going ahead. "I love one-day cricket and, with nothing proved, I have no problem whatsoever [with] who I play against," Swann, who took 22 wickets in the Test series against Pakistan, wrote in The Sun. "What I want most is that cricket gets back in the papers for the right reasons - for someone to score an unbelievable hundred or produce a great spell of bowling. "It's terrible for cricket to have something like this hanging over it. We want a clean game and that's what the spectators deserve." However, former England captain Michael Vaughan questioned whether the final leg of the tour should proceed. "It's difficult to focus on the series," he said. "Everybody will be looking back and asking questions. "If I'd been playing and I'd got a hundred, or somebody like Graeme Swann who took so many wickets, you're bound to ask questions - are they legitimate runs or wickets? "It's very difficult for the one-day series, everybody will be studying every aspect, any no-balls or wides or somebody getting out in a particular fashion." And current England captain Andrew Strauss said it was up to cricket's administrators to decide whether the series should proceed or not. "That is something for the ICC (International Cricket Council), ECB (England and Wales Cricket Broad) and PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) to sit down and decide what the best way forward is," he stated. "Clearly there are going to be some very strong reasons for the series to go ahead, but they are also going to have to sit down and think about what is the right thing to do. That's their decision." Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8957755.stm

[Clarke]

in before "England are scared of our phaasstt boilers"

[Shine]

Tainted trio to be quizzed but won’t be arrested: PCB official Pakistan’s tainted trio of Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir will be quizzed by Scotland Yard for the second time on Wednesday but they are not in danger of being arrested, a Pakistan Cricket Board official said. Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed had on Tuesday said that the trio would only face a PCB internal inquiry at the High Commission in London on Wednesday but it has now emerged that they will be questioned by Scotland Yard for the second time in the ’spot-fixing’ scandal. He said no player has been charged as yet nor any case registered against them and they are available for the forthcoming Twenty20 and one-day series. “As it stands now, the players have only been questioned by Scotland Yard. No one has been charged neither has Scotland Yard found any incriminating evidence against any player,†the official said. “We have hired a barrister to assist the players and will be present when they meet with Scotland Yard detectives today. The questioning is part of routine investigation but all the players who are being questioned are available for selection and play in the coming series,†he added. A spokesman for the High Commission’s office in London also said that no player had been charged and was in danger of being arrested. “These players are very much part of the touring team and can play in the series. There is no suspension on them. Neither has anyone formally charged them,†the spokesman said. “The tour is on and the PCB has no intention of either sending back any player or calling off the tour. The PCB and the High Commission are extending all support and cooperation to the investigation,†the the spokesman said. He said the High Commission had also asked Scotland Yard to provide it with a preliminary report on the investigations. The tainted trio were yesterday barred from team practice at Taunton and asked to proceed to London amidst reports that they would be questioned by Scotland Yard though team manager Yawar Saeed said that they would only face a PCB internal inquiry at the High Commission. ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat yesterday said that Scotland Yard and the ICC anti-corruption and security unit were busy gathering forensic evidence and piecing them together. http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/article607093.ece

[achilles]

... and England has decided to ban Stuart Broad and send him for behaviour therapy, with the Pakistani player Shoaib Akhtar. .... and ban the use of ball-tampering by letting players stamp on balls and get away with it and also by using confectionery to alter with the condition of the ball. England taking morality is like an Indian politician calling himself honest.

[Rajiv]

^^ I have never seen an India post like you b4, must be 1st of a kind

[coffee_rules]

^^ I have. I think it is a British thingy. UK Indians support anybody (including Pakis) over English.

[Asim]

Butt, Asif and Amir dropped for rest of tour... Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, the three Pakistan players who are at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy have been dropped for the limited-overs leg of the England tour, according to team manager Yawar Saeed. http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/475559.html

[King Tendulkar]

What about akmal and yousuf? What about other 5 players in NOW report? What a joke country