Spot-fixing/Match-fixing scandal

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[rafay321]

Mr. Haroon Logart is quiet a pro Pakistan official as per Mr. Imran Khan.

 

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Two Pakistan players issued notices before scandal


Cricinfo staff


Two Pakistan cricketers were issued notices by the ICC seeking information nearly a month before the spot-fixing scandal broke during the Lord's Test last month, ESPNcricinfo has learned. The players are part of the squad in England and were sent notices because they were already under the scanner of the ICC's Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU). One of them was provisionally suspended by the ICC after being named by News of the World's sting operation.



The ACSU "had already served notices seeking information from certain players even before the scam broke out," a source familiar with the ongoing investigation told ESPNcricinfo. It is also understood that relevant PCB officials were aware of the notices, which were sent immediately after the first Test in Nottingham.

ESPNcricinfo was unable to contact PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, who has not made any statements since Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were suspended by the ICC. Yawar Saeed, the Pakistan team's manager, is not authorised to speak on the investigations and referred ESPNcricinfo to the chairman. Another official refused to confirm or deny that such notices had been received.

Although the Daily Mail has today named the two cricketers, there has been no official confirmation of their identities.

The notice served to the pair sought certain information and the players were required to respond within 14 days. Failure to do so would in itself constitute an offence under the ICC's anti-corruption code.

Some of Pakistan's cricketers are facing scrutiny not only from the ACSU but also from Pakistan's tax authorities who will reportedly probe the finances of the cricketers, a move endorsed by both Shafqat Rana, Pakistan's associate manager, and limited-overs captain Shahid Afridi. "It was there in their (the government's) mind before we came over," Rana said about the tax probe. "I think it's a good thing, it will open things out so they (the players) will be very careful."



Spot-fixing controversy: Two Pakistan players issued notices before scandal | Cricket News | England v Pakistan 2010 | Cricinfo.com

 

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Ijaz Butt hides from crisis - Geoff Lawson​

Spot-fixing controversy: Ijaz Butt hides from crisis - Geoff Lawson | Cricket News | England v Pakistan 2010 | Cricinfo.com

Geoff Lawson, the former Australian fast bowler and Pakistan coach, has criticised the PCB and its chairman, Ijaz Butt, for failing to provide the strong leadership that the country's cricket needs during "one of its biggest challenges."

"Even through this crisis we have heard virtually nothing from their chairman," Lawson said on ESPNcricinfo's audio show Time Out. "He hides from a crisis, he is not a leader and when Pakistan need a strong leader and people to show them the way forward, they are not getting it from their board."



Lawson said before the appointment of Butt, Pakistan cricket had in place detailed long-term plans to develop the game from the grassroots up. "There were 10 and 15 year plans, plans to build regional cricket academies, fitness, fitness trainers, physios and stocking gyms with better equipment and better pay for the first-class players."




Things in Pakistan changed after Butt took charge, Lawson said. "After the elections in 2008, it took some months with their hung parliament to appoint a new chairman and Ijaz Butt was appointed and really, I just see from that instant, there has been a decline in Pakistan cricket."



Before the spot fixing controversy, Butt's tenure coincided with the Lahore attack on the Sri Lankan team, the refusal by other countries to tour Pakistan, several captaincy changes, the fallout of the Australia tour with match-fixing and disciplinary charges being levelled on players and deteriorating relations with the ICC.

Last week, Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were charged under the ICC's anti-corruption code and provisionally suspended from the game while their case is being heard. However, Lawson said Salman Butt had done a great job with a young side since being appointed captain of Pakistan and that he would be shocked if Salman Butt turned out to be at the center of the spot-fixing scandal.

"If it is the case that these young players are being affected, then there is something very bad with the environment in which Pakistan cricket is being played in."

Given the stakes, Lawson said the current crisis is the greatest Pakistan cricket has faced, and unlike previous crises, the team will not have the opportunity to mend fences by playing matches at home once things calm down.

"The hearings on Asif, Amir and Salman will be extremely important," he said. "I hope against hope that things will turn out alright but this is very much a watershed for Pakistan cricket right now."

 

[Usama86]

I have found video evidence which can save Amir from any prosecution. If we can show Scotland Yard that Amir is Super stupid and Idiot and really behaves like a kid then maybe they will let him off.
Just watch how he acts on live TV specially @ 4:50 when he talks about Asif and Venna Malik lol. I think he was not even 18 at that time.

 

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ICC sends official notice to Kamran Akmal​

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MELBOURNE: The International Cricket Council has sent an official notice to Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal telling him that he is under investigation for allegedly fixing the Sydney Test.


"Only months after clearing the Pakistan team of any wrongdoing in relation to the controversial Test, the ICC has written to Kamran to advise him he is now in their crosshairs for the Sydney debacle," a report in the 'Courier Mail' said.

Kamran had dropped four catches in the Sydney Test where Australia won the match from a losing position, rasing doubts of match-fixing. The ICC then investigated the matter and gave a clean chit to him.

However, the world governing body was left red-faced after Pakistan opener Yasir Hameed reportedly claimed that the SCG Test was rigged and players involved in the corruption had pocketed $3 million for the staged loss.

"ICC investigators have re-opened the SCG case and fingered Kamran as their primary suspect. But investigations aren't moving at a fast pace, with the NSW Fraud Squad yesterday revealing they had received no contact from Scotland Yard detectives or the ICC," the report said.

Even as the investigators probe the SCG Test, Australian wicketkeeping great Ian Healy said Kamran could not have dropped those catches deliberately.

Read more: ICC sends official notice to Kamran Akmal - The Times of India ICC sends official notice to Kamran Akmal - The Times of India

 

[Super Falcon]

hope we get rid if this rubbish player kamran for ever this time sick of this players hope he keep in jail for life

 

[riju78]

Was T2o cup bent? | The Sun |Sport|Cricket


ENGLAND'S triumph in the World Twenty20 is sensationally the latest event to come under the match-fixing microscope.
As head coach Andy Flower expressed his anger yesterday that Pakistan were "sullying" cricket, now even England's finest hour could be tarnished.

SunSport has learned the ICC are investigating the Pakistan squad that played in the event in the Caribbean in April and May.

England beat Pakistan by six wickets in the Super Eights stage on May 6 and went on to win a global trophy for the first time in more than 30 years of trying.

Pakistan looked certain to reach the final themselves - before Mike Hussey's amazing 60 not out from 24 balls in the semi-final shattered their chances.

The Sydney Test against Australia in January and the Asia Cup in June are already under suspicion - but this is a dramatic new development.

It is understood two players have been asked for the details of the mobile phones they were using in the Caribbean and other infor-mation. Their responses so far are described as "unsatisfactory".

Pakistan's play on the field on their tour of England is nothing more than a sideshow since the allegations against Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.

The trio have been suspended but wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal plays on despite growing interest in him from the ICC's anti-corruption sleuths.

Flower could barely conceal his fury yesterday because of the way England's ruthless displays in recent weeks have been "overshadowed".

He also accused the ECB of damaging attendances by jam-packing the schedule with too many matches.

Pathetic Pakistan were crushed in both T20 games at Cardiff and Tuesday's match attracted a crowd of just 5,821 - the lowest to watch England play at home for many years.

And, although sales for the first two 50-over one-dayers in Durham on Friday and Leeds on Sunday are better, the ECB are launching an enquiry into why the terraces are empty.

Flower said: "There's a bit of a gloomy atmosphere and, with the sullying of cricket's name and reputation, that's understandable. It's a pity because we are playing some outstanding cricket.

"We've won two games comfortably and for the skills of the bowlers to be completely overshadowed is sad."

England have won seven T20 matches on the trot - a world record - but the milestone was met with indifference in Wales.

Flower added: "It was a strange atmosphere.

"To have two Twenty20 games in 48 hours at the same venue at this stage of the season might have been an error."

 

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Accused players will return to Pakistan, says Butt

LAHORE: Pakistan's cricket chief on Thursday said three players under investigation in Britain for corruption can return home as no charges had been brought against them.

Pakistan Test team captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif have been interrogated by police over claims that they took money to deliberately bowl no-balls against England at Lord's last month.

"Since the players have not been charged we have informed Scotland Yard that they will be travelling back to Pakistan within the next few days," Pakistan Cricket Board ( PCB) chairman Ejaz Butt said.

Seven players fell under suspicion after a newspaper sting targeting the Pakistan team's alleged spot-fixing, and Butt said a fourth player, Wahab Riaz, would stay in Britain to be interviewed by police.

"We have arranged for his interview as we will continue to cooperate and we want to get to the bottom of the matter," Butt said.

The News of the World has published a video report showing Riaz taking a jacket from bookmaker Mazhar Majeed - the alleged middleman in the spot-fixing scam - which had 10,000 pounds ($15,400) in it.

The newspaper reported it had paid an agent 150,000 pounds for advance knowledge of no-balls to be bowled by Pakistan in the Test, which could then be bet upon.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has provisionally suspended captain Butt and bowlers Aamer and Asif for violating a players' code of conduct over the corruption claims.

Another player, Kamran Akmal, has been informed by the ICC that he is under investigation in relation to Pakistan's matches in the World Twenty20 in the West Indies in April-May this year, and the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka a month later, Butt said.

 

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Riaz to be grilled by Scotland Yard


Lahore, Thu, Sep 09 2010

Another Pakistan player will be grilled by the Scotland yard soon. Wahab Riaz, who is currently touring with Pakistan and is in Pak's squad for the ODIs, will be interviewed by Scotland Yard officials on September 14, PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said. After the tainted trio of Salamn Butt, Mohd. Asif and Amir, Wahab will be the fourth Pak player to be quizzed by Scotland Yard in relation to the spot-fixing controversy. The players are at the centre of allegations that they conspired with Mazhar Majeed to bowl no-balls deliberately at specific moments during the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan. The trio were questioned by the police for over nine hours were but eventually released without charge.

Chairman Ijaz Butt has finally come out into the open and shared some information about the developments surrounding the spot-fixing controversy. In a press conference held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Butt also confirmed that Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal were contacted by the ASCU before the scandal broke out. He said the duo were sent notices at the World T20 in the Caribbean.

In another statement by the PCB, it was confirmed that the Pakistan's suspended trio of Salman Butt, Asif and Amir were to return to Pakistan soon. The players have not been charged by the Scotland Yard as yet and probe is on.

Riaz to be grilled by Scotland Yard

 

[Pakistani_Athiest]

Riaz to be grilled by Scotland Yard


Lahore, Thu, Sep 09 2010

Another Pakistan player will be grilled by the Scotland yard soon. Wahab Riaz, who is currently touring with Pakistan and is in Pak's squad for the ODIs, will be interviewed by Scotland Yard officials on September 14, PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said. After the tainted trio of Salamn Butt, Mohd. Asif and Amir, Wahab will be the fourth Pak player to be quizzed by Scotland Yard in relation to the spot-fixing controversy. The players are at the centre of allegations that they conspired with Mazhar Majeed to bowl no-balls deliberately at specific moments during the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan. The trio were questioned by the police for over nine hours were but eventually released without charge.

Chairman Ijaz Butt has finally come out into the open and shared some information about the developments surrounding the spot-fixing controversy. In a press conference held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Butt also confirmed that Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal were contacted by the ASCU before the scandal broke out. He said the duo were sent notices at the World T20 in the Caribbean.

In another statement by the PCB, it was confirmed that the Pakistan's suspended trio of Salman Butt, Asif and Amir were to return to Pakistan soon. The players have not been charged by the Scotland Yard as yet and probe is on.

Riaz to be grilled by Scotland Yard

Sad ... so sad...


As a Pakistani cricket fan, I apologize to -

1. The English cricket board for us being such ungrateful guests,
2. The cricketing world for us brining shame to the game,
3. The Sri Lankan cricket fans, players and board for betraying their trust
4. The Indian cricket fans for PCB's management dragging their country into this fiasco.

I am ashamed and cannot keep my head held high anymore.

 

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Tillakaratne Dilshan 'met bookie in a nightclub'

Batting maverick Tillakaratne Dilshan was the player named in a Sri Lankan cricket board report to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit last year after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected illegal bookmaker in a London nightclub.


The report was filed by the Sri Lankan team manager after captain Kumar Sangakkara passed on suspicions among team-mates that Dilshan had been seen with the bookie during the World Twenty20 tournament in England in June 2009.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of Dilshan. The Sri Lankans followed the ICC’s protocol to the letter, reporting the alleged incident as soon as it was made known to the team management.
But, with a cloud hanging over the sport following allegations of spot-fixing by three Pakistan players in the Lord’s Test against England and the news that seamer Wahab Riaz will be questioned by Scotland Yard detectives on Tuesday, the suspicions raised about another high-profile cricketer will be viewed as a further blow to the game.
Dilshan made a name for himself last summer when his ‘Dilscoop’ - in which he shovels the ball over his own head and that of the wicket-keeper - became the iconic image of the World Twenty20 competition and propelled his side to the final, where they lost to Pakistan.
The 33-year-old had already become a hero in Sri Lanka for his courageous behaviour
during the attack on his team’s bus by terrorists in Lahore in March 2009.
Kent coach Paul Farbrace, who was Sri Lanka’s assistant coach at the time, told Sportsmail earlier this year: ‘He stuck his head up when the bullets were flying around, sat behind the driver and guided him through the parked cars that the attackers had put there to try to stop us escaping.
‘I could hear Dilshan shouting, “Go left, go right” - and it was only the fact that the
driver and Dilshan didn’t get shot that enabled us to get away.’
Those close to Dilshan said on Thursday he has done nothing wrong. A Sri Lanka team spokesman said: ‘There is no evidence against any of the Sri Lankan players. None of them are guilty. These allegations are being drummed up by unscrupulous
elements who are trying to upset Sri Lanka’s plans for the World Cup.'



Read more: Tillakaratne Dilshan 'met bookie in a nightclub' | Mail Online

 

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ICC sends official notice to Kamran Akmal​

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MELBOURNE: The International Cricket Council has sent an official notice to Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal telling him that he is under investigation for allegedly fixing the Sydney Test.


"Only months after clearing the Pakistan team of any wrongdoing in relation to the controversial Test, the ICC has written to Kamran to advise him he is now in their crosshairs for the Sydney debacle," a report in the 'Courier Mail' said.

Kamran had dropped four catches in the Sydney Test where Australia won the match from a losing position, rasing doubts of match-fixing. The ICC then investigated the matter and gave a clean chit to him.

However, the world governing body was left red-faced after Pakistan opener Yasir Hameed reportedly claimed that the SCG Test was rigged and players involved in the corruption had pocketed $3 million for the staged loss.

"ICC investigators have re-opened the SCG case and fingered Kamran as their primary suspect. But investigations aren't moving at a fast pace, with the NSW Fraud Squad yesterday revealing they had received no contact from Scotland Yard detectives or the ICC," the report said.

Even as the investigators probe the SCG Test, Australian wicketkeeping great Ian Healy said Kamran could not have dropped those catches deliberately.

Read more: ICC sends official notice to Kamran Akmal - The Times of India ICC sends official notice to Kamran Akmal - The Times of India

After failing to provide any proof against Asif, Aamer and But, the conspirators are now playing the distracting game to keep people guessing, confused. The post #23, 24 and 25 of the following link provide crystal clear analysis and debunk the myth of Akmal's complicity in SSG test fixing.

Sydney test January 2010 Highlights (video now added) - PakPassion - Pakistan Cricket Forum

 

[SummerWine]

Melbourne: Pakistan's teenage pacer Mohammad Amir, who is implicated in the spot-fixing scandal that has shaken world cricket, could become an informant for the ICC and reveal "dodgy betting identities that corrupted him" to escape a life-ban, a media report said here on Tuesday.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Amir is ready for the "high-risk roll of the dice that could put his life in danger."

Quoting sources, the newspaper reported that the 18-year-old fast bowler is contemplating co-operating with police and the ICC's investigations into the spot-fixing and match-fixing allegations that have followed a British tabloid's sting operation on alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed.

Amir is currently in Pakistan after being provisionally suspended by the ICC along with Test captain Salman Butt and fellow pacer Mohammad Asif.

The trio allegedly conspired to bowl no-balls to order during last month's Lord's Test against England.

"It is understood the 18-year-old wants to tell his story and possibly give evidence against Butt, Asif and other Pakistani players under investigation.

"Given his tender age, inexperience and potential co-operation with authorities, there is a high likelihood that Amir could receive a watered-down penalty compared to the life-bans that could be dished out to some of the other alleged cheats," the newspaper reporte
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Assuming players are guilty, would it be fair thing on part of Amir to do ....

 

[Kanwer ahsan ali Rajput]

yes u r right thinking for pak players I proud of my team