Ijaz's Butt apologises for match-fixing comments

[Gunner_Mania]

I think he has seriously lost his marbles.

[Mamu]

PCB will distance itself from Ijaz Butt saying he did it on his own, we are not with him

[Hindustani]

this reminds me of a moral story about a scorpion and the tortoise .I hope this is a lesson to the ECB and to the world.If you try to help a scorpion then it will take both down with it.

Very well said, the story was in "Jaatak Katha" Pakistan as a country is not only in trouble, but is root of all trouble, same thing can be said about its citizens. The whole country is insane barring few, the world needs to be careful with pakistan and pakistanis, :winky:

[DomainK]

Now the The England & Wales Cricket Board is all ready to sue PCB's butt. http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/story/477928.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

[King Tendulkar]

Now buffoon demands removal of Lorgat :hysterical: http://tribune.com.pk/story/52559/pcb-demands-removal-of-haroon-lorgat/

WTF:hysterical: Butt is a legend:hysterical:

[King Tendulkar]

PCB will distance itself from Ijaz Butt saying he did it on his own' date=' we are not with him[/quote'] I think they will rally behind him. He will/already has become a hero like saladin:haha:

[ZodiaC]

Now buffoon demands removal of Lorgat :hysterical: http://tribune.com.pk/story/52559/pcb-demands-removal-of-haroon-lorgat/

Legend

[King Tendulkar]

Now the The England & Wales Cricket Board is all ready to sue PCB's butt. http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/story/477928.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

Butt will give them a reply. He will tear them to shreds if it went to court. In fact am sure he is praying he has to go to court and destroy them with his verbal linguistics. ECB making big mistake taking on Butt

[asterix]

Pakistan (Because PCB is Govt. controlled) has lot's options..First of all they have experience in messy matters like this. How will you deal with a rowdy who have made a life out of rogue behaviour? They have enough experience of blatantly cheating USA of all the doles and supporting Taliban against them..They very well know that World has to 'support' this rogue criminal state, no matter what happens.. Similarly ICC cannot ditch Pakistan and have to keep them in the loop. Otherwise lots of victim cards will be played.. They have the best option up their sleeves.. "The World is out there to discredit Pakistan and if Pakistan is isolated then the youth of Pakistan will turn to Terrorism" (as if they were already not doing it)..

[Clarke]

Now the The England & Wales Cricket Board is all ready to sue PCB's butt. http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/story/477928.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

whats the big deal .. the universal dole that butt's buddies are getting in the govt can certainly pay off any damages.

[yoda]

This guy represents the country of Pakistan. Brainless, adamant, refuse to admit they have issues, accuse others for the same thing that you get caught for. Too bad we have this fecking POS as a neighbor or else we can watch and just laugh.

[Debutant]

Finally a sensible article from a paki. Offcourse it is rare.

[Ram]

By threatening to launch a counter investigation in retaliation to the latest match-fixing allegation, Ijaz Butt essentially admitted to the Pakistani guilt in the allegations related NOTW sting operation. Think of it, Ijaz Butt probably knew that 3rd ODI was totally clean (lets just assume it is for now. Even though you cannot put anything past the Pakistanis, EVEN they wouldnt be dumb enough to commit more of the same crime for which they're already under investigation). So his response to being maligned unfairly (in his own mind) – How DARE you point the finger of blame at us when we’re innocent!! I can malign your name as well! When dignified individuals get slandered unfairly, they counter it with poise and decency. When village idiots like Butt thinks he is been targeted unfairly, he replies with more slime. But when NOTW broke news about its sting operation, what was their reaction – Silence and a meek assertion that the players are innocent until proven guilty. Thank you Butt, for clearing the air for us.. (not that we needed any more clearing..) :haha:

[riwi999]

This is fantastic entertainment. All a savvy TV network needs to do is to have a talk show with two guests. The High Commissioner and the PCB Chairman. And have an interesting host who is a master at wind-ups. That is all you need. Sit back and relax! :haha: Both these guys are supposed to be right-hand men of Zardari. Handpicked by him. I want to see an interview with Zardari now. Maybe we should get him in also in this talk show and call it "3 Idiots". :hysterical:

[asterix]

This is fantastic entertainment. All a savvy TV network needs to do is to have a talk show with two guests. The High Commissioner and the PCB Chairman. And have an interesting host who is a master at wind-ups. That is all you need. Sit back and relax! :haha: Both these guys are supposed to be right-hand men of Zardari. Handpicked by him. I want to see an interview with Zardari now. Maybe we should get him in also in this talk show and call it "3 Idiots". :hysterical:

[Manny_Pacquiao]

LMFAO england graciously hosted the paki chors on their home soil, and this is what they get in return, conspiracy theories and other childish crap from mr. buttullah...waaaah. pakiyon ki zehniyat hi aisi hoti hai... pakis, good luck finding a country that will host your sorry asses

[The Outsider]

I really wanted Pakistan to win today to see delusion being taken to the next level, and boy they have not disappointed. England players not shaking hands of Pakis after the match is loser mentality after being accused of cheating from the highest ranking Pakistan cricket official. But Pakis refusing to come out and play at the Oval and forfeiting a test is sign of standing up for the right, even if the accuser was not even English. Botham asking for Pakistan to be banned from cricket till their board can clean up their act is racism, but teams adopting a boycott of South Africa because they select players on the basis of their skin is standing up for human rights. Pakistanis are so insecure even in their wins that they are already leveling allegations that the British media is going to come out with charges of tampering. Almost as if they know down within that their players cheating is very much a possibility and they are setting the ground beforehand just in case they are proven to be tamperers. The more this nation is falling into the abyss, the more they keep on digging.

[The Outsider]

Another one about to bite the dust and join the list of casualties to 'lose respect' from the Pakis : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-1313784/Nasser-Hussain-Remove-Pakistan-fix-game-cricket.html#ixzz107FgsQEV

There may come a point sometime soon when temporarily removing Pakistan from world cricket may be the only way to preserve the game's dignity. It hasn't come quite yet, because everyone is innocent until proven guilty. But thanks to those ludicrous comments from Ijaz Butt, the situation is so inflamed that the Pakistan Cricket Board and the ICC should meet at the end of this series and decide whether Pakistan should sit it out for a while until everyone calms down. Or at least until a proper investigation has taken place into the extent of the spot-fixing problem. I've generally agreed with Imran Khan on this: You can't kick out a team just because of two or three bad apples. But we're seeing now what happens when accusations are bandied around with no thought for their consequences. Would Jonathan Trott and Wahab Riaz have had their dust-up before the start of play yesterday if Butt hadn't accused England of throwing the Oval one-dayer? Possibly. But it's no surprise that tempers are fraying at the end of a summer in which England have had to put up with so much. If I'd been in Andrew Strauss's shoes I would not have wanted to play the final two games of this series. I know we're different sorts of characters, and I applaud Strauss's decision to play on as well as his awareness of the bigger picture. But after everything England have gone through, and after all the help the ECB have given to the Pakistanis, I'd have been seriously tempted to say enough is enough. If you're accusing my team of deliberately losing a match, then you don't deserve to be on the same field. I would also have been spewing if I was a Pakistan player. They finally win a game on the back of some special seam bowling from Umar Gul and their chairman comes out and says the only reason they won was because England tried to lose. I would say, though, that the ECB have handled it very well. They have shown real dignity and stuck by their players. When the ICC came out with their statement, ECB chairman Giles Clarke was very quick to say 'it wasn't us'. So it's a shame the ICC haven't shown the same sort of decisiveness. Why on earth would they come out with a statement saying they were looking into the Oval one-dayer without clearing England's name? The ECB had to do the job for them a couple of hours later, and that's not acceptable. The ICC have got to be very careful in the current climate about what they say. They've either got to reveal everything, like the News of the World did, or stay schtum. Right now is not the time for the middle ground. The game requires firm leadership. What it does not need are loose-cannon administrators, weak governance and yet more rumours. Some difficult decisions lie in wait. I just hope cricket is strong enough to take them.

[Desi Cartman]

Now Butt saab says he didnt accuse, its was bookie talk Questions: 1. Is he in touch with match fixers ? :hmmmm: 2. Does he think that if eng wanted then could have won it ? http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/fixing-claim-was-bookie-talk-says-butt-20100920-15jwa.html

PAKISTAN cricket chief Ijaz Butt yesterday denied accusing England players of match-fixing after earlier suggesting they may have thrown a one-day international for ''enormous'' sums of cash. In an interview with BBC Radio Five Live, the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman said he had merely been relaying information from bookmakers relating to England's one-day defeat by Pakistan at the Oval last Friday. ''I have never said this. If you listen to the full tape of the NDTV [an Indian television company] interview, the bookies are saying this. I am not saying this,'' Butt said. Reports last night said the England and Wales Cricket Board was preparing to take legal action against Butt. Asked about mounting calls for the remaining two matches in the series - at Lord's overnight and in Southampton tomorrow - to be cancelled, Butt said he wanted the games to go ahead. ''If they [the ECB] want to scrap it, they can scrap it; we will go ahead with it,'' Butt told the BBC. Butt triggered uproar on Sunday in an interview with the NDTV news channel, linking England's cricketers to match-fixing. ''There is loud and clear talk in bookie circles that some English players were paid enormous amounts of money to lose the [Oval] match,'' Butt said. ''No wonder there was total collapse of the English side.'' Butt told NDTV there was a conspiracy to ''defraud Pakistan and Pakistani cricket'' and threatened to reveal names of those involved in the alleged conspiracy. Sources indicated that high-ranking ECB officials had contacted Butt for clarification of his comments, which came after fresh corruption claims against Pakistan emerged on Saturday, with Britain's Sun newspaper claiming to have been made aware of details of Pakistan's innings before Friday's match had got under way. The paper tipped off International Cricket Council officials who watched as scoring patterns in two suspect overs emerged as predicted, The Sun said. But the overall result of the match was not believed to be fixed, the report added.

[Pak_Forever]

All hail the Butt. His end is near and he needs to throw as much dirt as possible on equally incompetent ICC. :--D