Spot-fixing/Match-fixing scandal

[Marxist]

Daily Times talked exclusively with the editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, who confirmed that, “There’s more to come with regards to the match fixing scandal.” On charges being framed against the News of the World by the Pakistani High Commission, the editor who had previously headed Sunday Mirror and the New York Post said, “We are used to such things. However we are more than willing to give more evidence to Scotland Yard.” “Yes there’s definitely more to come on Sunday,” the editor confirmed.

A source in the Pakistan High Commission who is familiar with the high commission’s probe into the match fixing scandal described the face-off between the three accused cricketers and the High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan as more of an “interrogation session” than a briefing, “where the high commissioner pressurised the cricketers to accept their wrongdoing and come clean” the source confirmed.

The three cricketers, Salman Butt (captain), Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Amir, who are named as the prime suspects in what is described as “the biggest scandal in the sporting world” are said to have broken down in front of the high commissioner and pleaded with him to “rescue them”. The High Commission, in consultation with the PCB and the Foreign Office was the one to ask both the PCB and the three accused to “drop out” of the upcoming T20 and one-day series although Salman Butt, allegedly the ringleader of the gang as the source described it, “wanted to play and looked confident”. “Yes he did dial some 051 and 042 numbers and has called some politicians in Pakistan to rescue them but as far as I know, no one wants to come close to them: it would be political suicide,” the source from the High Commission with an intelligence background confirmed.

In another bizarre incident, the accused are said to have consulted a local PR publicist to counter the media campaign. Daily Times can confirm that at least one of the three players had consulted a barrister specialising in immigration about filing for “political asylum” on the grounds of life threats and prosecution in his homeland.

When contacted, a Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed, “More players could be questioned if there is evidence and we will get to the bottom of this.” On the peculiar silence on the role of the Akmal brothers, Wahab Riaz and Umer Amin, Scotland Yard said, “We are looking into everyone’s role in the scandal.”

However in Karachi, the hub of Pakistan’s satta bazaar (illegal betting market), the business is unofficially and officially ‘closed’ due to Ramazan. When Daily Times contacted a local bookie about the whole match-fixing fiasco, the bookie confirmed, “This has hit our business too, but you know the odds of Pakistan winning the one-day series has just gone up after the three players were dropped.”

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[Tayyab1796]

WTF man these cheats have literally made me ashamed of being 'Pakistani' ... HANG them in public .... In this holy month we are made to be seen as immoral cheats by these sub-human characters representing their country.

 

[Peregrine]

WTF man these cheats have literally made me ashamed of being 'Pakistani' ... HANG them in public .... In this holy month we are made to be seen as immoral cheats by these sub-human characters representing their country.

ahan! so you are mad at them for representing Pakistan in cricket, what about Mr 10% for representing Pakistan in the entire world?

 

[compak]

WTF man these cheats have literally made me ashamed of being 'Pakistani' ... HANG them in public .... In this holy month we are made to be seen as immoral cheats by these sub-human characters representing their country.

Come on dude, there is no need to be ashamed of being Pakistani, these cheats are in every society, the problem is we don't punish them on their first mistake, the day we started punishing these culprits everything will be okay.

Let them not demoralize us as a nation. We have to fight a hell lot of problems.

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

Mr 10% is politician. Sportsperson care alot about character and respect. Its passion, its dream. Sports tell us the lesson 'never give up'. Zimbabwe and Bangladesh cricketers earn less than Pakistani players, still they are clean. One should know differance in need and greed. The old saying is - If Money is lost nothing is lost, If Health is lost then something is lost. If character/soul is lost then everything is lost.

ahan! so you are mad at them for representing Pakistan in cricket, what about Mr 10% for representing Pakistan in the entire world?

True, Salim Malik was made scape-goat, cuz he was nearing end of his career anyways, Other Pakistani players whose names appeared in the investigations were fined and let off. Pakistan had chance to get rid of this cancer. India banned Azzu, Mongia, Jadeja and Nikhil for lifetime.

The problem is we don't punish them on their first mistake

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

Pakistani star Yasir Hameed blows lid off cricket corruption

INSIGHT: Yasir Hameed claims bent teammates were fixing 'almost every match'

A PAKISTAN cricketer who played in the rigged Lord's Test has sensationally confirmed that there WERE cheats in his team.

Respected opening batsman Yasir Hameed claims bent teammates were fixing "almost every match".

And he provided a devastating insight into the shady world of betting scams, telling how he:

* REFUSED bribes of up to £150,000 from a corrupt bookmaker to throw matches.
* LOST his own place in the squad and saw his career damaged as a result.
* WATCHED as crooked colleagues splashed out on plush properties and expensive sports cars funded by their illicit activities.
* LEARNED that shameless players pocketed an astonishing £1.8million for rigging a Test match against Australia earlier this year.

Hameed, once rated amongst the world's finest batsmen, said of his scandal-struck colleagues: "They've been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks.

"They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages.

"It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose."

And, predicting the likely fate of the players exposed by the News of the World, Hameed added darkly: "The guys that have got done have got themselves killed.

"They're gone - forget about them."

Hameed's remarks will heap pressure on the ICC investigation and the preposterous defence thrown up last week by shamed Pakistan skipper Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and their Pakistan Cricket Board bosses.

Sipping white wine in a Nottingham hotel just two days after our revelations sparked a worldwide sensation, Hameed, 32, described how he became a victim of betting cartels' vengeance for refusing to fix games.

"It's because of all these wrong things that I was outed, because I wouldn't get involved," he told our undercover reporter.

"If you sat here and said, 'I'm a bookie and I want you to fix the match tomorrow' - I've met lots of people like that in the past and I refused. They offered me handsome money.

"I could have come to see you in a Ferrari. They give you so much money that you can live out your dreams, buy a flash car.

"I've been offered huge amounts of money, up to £150,000."

"I wouldn't get involved. That's why I was out of the team for two years - two years! Now God has punished them. I played in the (Lord's) match. Even though I flopped, these guys have been caught out.

"Just look at my average. It's 38, 39 (runs scored per innings). Which player in the world has that average and is dropped?

"If I was playing for any other country, what would I be now? I'd be the team captain."

Hameed's record supports his case. He had a sensational start to his international career in 2003, scoring 170 runs in his first innings and another 105 in the second, against Bangladesh.

In his first 30 One Day Inter- nationals, he scored more runs than any other batsman. Yet despite that he has bounced in and out of the national team.

"The truth is I've never sold a match for Pakistan. I've always got by on legitimate money. I come from a middle-class hard-working family," he said. Hameed detailed how the lure of riches had led some of his comparatively poorly paid teammates to fall for the lure of match-fixers.

By contrast with the limited fees of around £2,000 a match, Hameed said the potential rewards for rigging games were huge.

Detailing the crooked price list of the match-fixers, he said: "The £150,000 (paid to Majeed) was just (a deposit) to show what would happen on this ball, what would happen on the other ball.

"In the future, imagine how much money they would have made. Imagine how many pounds they would have made!

RESPECTED: 'I've been offered £150k but I wouldn't get involved. Now God has punished them,' says Yasir Hameed

"He (Majeed) pays the players whatever the rate is. I think they get £20,000 or £25,000 for no balls. God knows what was the deal, I didn't ask."

Hameed asked why Asif - one of three players at the centre of the scandal who was last week suspended by the ICC - had been able to amass a big property portfolio.

"I'm having a house built and it's stopped halfway," said Hameed. "I'm building it from legitimate money and work has stopped.

"Asif - how many matches has he played and how many have I played? I've played 80 matches and he's played around 50. He has four mansions. Where did they come from?

"He (Asif) has just built a house in Italian style in Lahore. You go there and you will think you are in Italy - that's how good his house is."

Hameed also dramatically claimed that another game had been thrown. Talking about fixed matches, he said: "The ICC Champion Trophy, Rose Bowl, we lost a match against West Indies, do you remember?" That was a semi-final game in 2004 at The Rose Bowl in Southampton.

The West Indies won the match by seven wickets despite posting just 132 runs. Pakistan capitulated to 131 all out.

The ICC's anti-corruption team may well now add the match to another they are investigating - January's farcical Test Match between Pakistan and Australia in Sydney.

Last week, we revealed how gloating Majeed bragged to our undercover team how they fixed the result.

"We let them (Australia) get up to 150 in the morning, and then everyone lost their wickets. That one we made 1.3 (million)."

Amazingly, Hameed claims Majeed underestimated the cash netted in the scam. He told us: "In the Sydney Test Match they made £1.8million - they gave away the match. I don't know how the money was divided up."

Of some agents who swarm around players, Hameed angrily told us: "There are agents but they are bastard bookies basically."

Turning to Mr Fix-it Mazhar Majeed - the lynchpin of the Lords scandal - Hameed spoke of his relief that he had given the crooked agent a wide berth.

"He had seven players. He didn't make me an offer and I didn't want to take a chance. I know what was going on."

But Hameed remains curiously loyal to shamed skipper Butt.

"He's a nice guy basically," he said. "I don't know why he's gone like this because of money."

 

[Hyde]

Mohammad Amir, the teenage bowler seen as one of the game’s most exciting talents, spent almost five hours on Friday being interviewed under caution.

He was asked about a message he allegedly sent to Mazhar Majeed – the agent arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers – last Friday, saying “Shall I do it or not?”

Full news: Pak cricket trio quizzed on secret accounts - GEO.tv

 

[Bas_tum_Pak]

Now this is big Issue but Pakistani News agencies Cleared few Minutes ago that..

"NOTW Has failed to Publish/ provide the Video/Audio of the Hameed's Interview, as they promised"

If They Failed Today then It will Great Help for Pakistan & NOTW will be Nothing More then a Fraud

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

Shamed match-fix trio built fortunes

HOME SWEET HOME: Asif and his Lahore property

Amir and his recent buy in Lahore

THE three shamed players have built an affluent life for themselves - now threatened by the prospect of life bans and even prosecution.

Tarnished cricket golden boy Salman Butt, 25, was born into money and educated at the exclusive Beaconhouse school in Lahore.

He (Salman Butt) is believed to own three houses there and is said to be building a new two-storey-villa in the city worth £300,000.

He married Gul Hassan in February 2006 and the couple have a 19-month-old son.

Mohammad Asif has long enjoyed the trappings of wealth that his - until now - successful career in cricket has brought him.

Asif, 28, is believed to own four properties including a £650,000 villa in Lahore. Another is understood to be in Karachi and a third in his native town of Shikhupura.

He dated Pakistan film star Veena Malik but that relationship ended badly and he married close-friend Sana Hilal in March.

This week furious Malik, 32, claimed that Asif had admitted to her his involvement in match-fixing.

Amir, 18, was, until our revelations, the pin-up boy of world cricket. Born in a remote village in the Punjab, he is the youngest of seven. One brother earns just £7-a-day working in a local shop.

Following a meteoric rise into the national side, he has recently bought a property in Lahore.

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

GeoTV already acknowledged, they shared proof.

Exclusive Yaseer Hamid Video -

Video news and sexy videos: The latest exclusive news, showbiz and sport videos| News Of The World

Ab Khush ?

Now this is big Issue but Pakistani News agencies Cleared few Minutes ago that..

"NOTW Has failed to Publish/ provide the Video/Audio of the Hameed's Interview, as they promised"

If They Failed Today then It will Great Help for Pakistan & NOTW will be Nothing More then a Fraud

 

[WAQAS119]

 

[Pakistani_Athiest]

Oh God! Oh God!.... I am ashamed of them all.......!

It is enough! Now they must be tried for treason...

Including Yasir Hameed?

 

[Sliver]

Pakistani star Yasir Hameed blows lid off cricket corruption

INSIGHT: Yasir Hameed claims bent teammates were fixing 'almost every match'

A PAKISTAN cricketer who played in the rigged Lord's Test has sensationally confirmed that there WERE cheats in his team.

Respected opening batsman Yasir Hameed claims bent teammates were fixing "almost every match".

And he provided a devastating insight into the shady world of betting scams, telling how he:

* REFUSED bribes of up to £150,000 from a corrupt bookmaker to throw matches.
* LOST his own place in the squad and saw his career damaged as a result.
* WATCHED as crooked colleagues splashed out on plush properties and expensive sports cars funded by their illicit activities.
* LEARNED that shameless players pocketed an astonishing £1.8million for rigging a Test match against Australia earlier this year.

Hameed, once rated amongst the world's finest batsmen, said of his scandal-struck colleagues: "They've been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks.

"They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages.

"It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose."

And, predicting the likely fate of the players exposed by the News of the World, Hameed added darkly: "The guys that have got done have got themselves killed.

"They're gone - forget about them."

Hameed's remarks will heap pressure on the ICC investigation and the preposterous defence thrown up last week by shamed Pakistan skipper Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and their Pakistan Cricket Board bosses.

Sipping white wine in a Nottingham hotel just two days after our revelations sparked a worldwide sensation, Hameed, 32, described how he became a victim of betting cartels' vengeance for refusing to fix games.

"It's because of all these wrong things that I was outed, because I wouldn't get involved," he told our undercover reporter.

"If you sat here and said, 'I'm a bookie and I want you to fix the match tomorrow' - I've met lots of people like that in the past and I refused. They offered me handsome money.

"I could have come to see you in a Ferrari. They give you so much money that you can live out your dreams, buy a flash car.

"I've been offered huge amounts of money, up to £150,000."

"I wouldn't get involved. That's why I was out of the team for two years - two years! Now God has punished them. I played in the (Lord's) match. Even though I flopped, these guys have been caught out.

"Just look at my average. It's 38, 39 (runs scored per innings). Which player in the world has that average and is dropped?

"If I was playing for any other country, what would I be now? I'd be the team captain."

Hameed's record supports his case. He had a sensational start to his international career in 2003, scoring 170 runs in his first innings and another 105 in the second, against Bangladesh.

In his first 30 One Day Inter- nationals, he scored more runs than any other batsman. Yet despite that he has bounced in and out of the national team.

"The truth is I've never sold a match for Pakistan. I've always got by on legitimate money. I come from a middle-class hard-working family," he said. Hameed detailed how the lure of riches had led some of his comparatively poorly paid teammates to fall for the lure of match-fixers.

By contrast with the limited fees of around £2,000 a match, Hameed said the potential rewards for rigging games were huge.

Detailing the crooked price list of the match-fixers, he said: "The £150,000 (paid to Majeed) was just (a deposit) to show what would happen on this ball, what would happen on the other ball.

"In the future, imagine how much money they would have made. Imagine how many pounds they would have made!

RESPECTED: 'I've been offered £150k but I wouldn't get involved. Now God has punished them,' says Yasir Hameed

"He (Majeed) pays the players whatever the rate is. I think they get £20,000 or £25,000 for no balls. God knows what was the deal, I didn't ask."

Hameed asked why Asif - one of three players at the centre of the scandal who was last week suspended by the ICC - had been able to amass a big property portfolio.

"I'm having a house built and it's stopped halfway," said Hameed. "I'm building it from legitimate money and work has stopped.

"Asif - how many matches has he played and how many have I played? I've played 80 matches and he's played around 50. He has four mansions. Where did they come from?

"He (Asif) has just built a house in Italian style in Lahore. You go there and you will think you are in Italy - that's how good his house is."

Hameed also dramatically claimed that another game had been thrown. Talking about fixed matches, he said: "The ICC Champion Trophy, Rose Bowl, we lost a match against West Indies, do you remember?" That was a semi-final game in 2004 at The Rose Bowl in Southampton.

The West Indies won the match by seven wickets despite posting just 132 runs. Pakistan capitulated to 131 all out.

The ICC's anti-corruption team may well now add the match to another they are investigating - January's farcical Test Match between Pakistan and Australia in Sydney.

Last week, we revealed how gloating Majeed bragged to our undercover team how they fixed the result.

"We let them (Australia) get up to 150 in the morning, and then everyone lost their wickets. That one we made 1.3 (million)."

Amazingly, Hameed claims Majeed underestimated the cash netted in the scam. He told us: "In the Sydney Test Match they made £1.8million - they gave away the match. I don't know how the money was divided up."

Of some agents who swarm around players, Hameed angrily told us: "There are agents but they are bastard bookies basically."

Turning to Mr Fix-it Mazhar Majeed - the lynchpin of the Lords scandal - Hameed spoke of his relief that he had given the crooked agent a wide berth.

"He had seven players. He didn't make me an offer and I didn't want to take a chance. I know what was going on."

But Hameed remains curiously loyal to shamed skipper Butt.

"He's a nice guy basically," he said. "I don't know why he's gone like this because of money."

wonder how much he got paid to do this..

or more importantly he saw his personal gain in this.. thinking he would be an inevitable part of the new pak cricket outfit that will emerge out of this chaos (if the allegations are found to be correct!)

no one does anything if there si no personal gain involved.

There is so much a man can do for greed! and greedy people are every where. Why restrict them to pakistan cricket?

 

[Sliver]

Including Yasir Hameed?

dont you think he might have been paid to say all this even on the condition of anonymity?? or else why does he have to say all this about his own team mates to some third party WHEN HE KNOWS people are out there to get these cricketeres?

There may be infighting in the house but if someone from outside tries to take advantage, you need to stay strong and with the team EVEN IF THE TEAM IS WRONG.

To me, this guy has broken the trust of the team..

please be free to disagree..

 

[Pakistani_Athiest]

dont you think he might have been paid to say all this even on the condition of anonymity?? or else why does he have to say all this about his own team mates to some third party WHEN HE KNOWS people are out there to get these cricketeres?

There may be infighting in the house but if someone from outside tries to take advantage, you need to stay strong and with the team EVEN IF THE TEAM IS WRONG.

To me, this guy has broken the trust of the team..

please be free to disagree..

I don't think he knew that he was being taped. He was perhaps under the impression that he was discussing with a friend. And believe me, people talk to other people when such things happen. I worked at a company where some financial irregularities were uncovered, guess what - everyone was talking about it. In cafes, food courts, lounge, billiards table etc.

I am sure that Yasir too was confiding to a close friend, unaware that he was being taped. So you cannot be sure that he wasn't staying with the team.

That aside, why should one stay with a team that's full of crooks? I cannot agree with you on that.