Shame: Pakistan again in match fixing quagmire

[JANA]

No one can trust Pakistani athletes now. Thanks for conveying that message. The last few major outlets are being cutoff by own sword.

When you exclude Younas Khan and Afridi for pointing out such practices, then what you can expect other than foul play by few blue-eyed ones

 

[deepak75]

Funny thing is that the fat cronies in the PCB even now, instead of coming clean and at least presenting a semblance of honest and orderly approach are blaming the ICC and everyone including the janitor of NOTW of a conspiracy against Pakistan.

Instead of building a case of better values in their young and talented cricketers by setting the right examples, Sham Shul Hasbeen was instead trying to find all reasons in the world for everything that is wrong with Pakistan cricket. And that guy is the High Commissioner of Pakistan in UK..... anybody still wondering why average Pakistanis love those conspiracy theories.....

 

[deepak75]

When you exclude Younas Khan and Afridi for pointing out such practices, then what you can expect other than foul play by few blue-eyed ones

Strange.... isn't it. Today the apple eating Afridi is someone that you could bring up as the best example of honest cricketers in Pakistan.....

You guys must be really spoilt for choice.....

 

[deepak75]

Oppsssssssssssss CWGs, and other corruption cases in India. Thats sports and if you make a little effort to read the history of this practice in India i am sure you will top the list we may be at number 2

While observing the CWG corruption, did you also notice that there is no joker defending these blighters in India. Do you now understand the difference between a progressively and a regressively thinking society??

 

[Yusuf]

JANA, CWG is corruption by officials, contractors, not by the athletes themselves. Corruption is there in india alrite but people are taken to task when caught and shamed in public rather than being defended by all and sundry including high commissioners. But then its but expected from pakistan that they will try to find an indian angle to everything bad or take solace from anything bad in india.

 

[smartindian]

Oppsssssssssssss CWGs, and other corruption cases in India. Thats sports and if you make a little effort to read the history of this practice in India i am sure you will top the list we may be at number 2

no one is defending Corrupt in India and corruption in CWG was exposed by Indian media not by international media .and once the games are over guilty will be punished (unlike pakistan)
which history are you talking about.by the way we both (country) are moving in opposite direction.
we will be next super power and your country go begging for flood relief .
we give aid and you take aid

 

[Rage]

Oppsssssssssssss CWGs, and other corruption cases in India. Thats sports and if you make a little effort to read the history of this practice in India i am sure you will top the list we may be at number 2

Ehh? When you have a President, you call Mr. 10%, no body can top you in corruption.

Despite all our corruption, the shoddiness of the CWG games and the general pathetic-ness of Indian hockey, we are still growing at 9.5%. What are you growing ?

P.S.: I hate to bring China into this, but are you aware of the cost spiral of the Beijing Olympics? They still managed to host a very spectacular games.

P.P.S: The same $hit happened in this country during the Asian Games in 1982. We were scurrying around like headless chickens until the very last minute, in the end we held, what will go down in the words of many journalists of that time, as one of the most successful Asia Games of that century.

 

[Vinod2070]

Oppsssssssssssss CWGs, and other corruption cases in India. Thats sports and if you make a little effort to read the history of this practice in India i am sure you will top the list we may be at number 2

You just need to look at facts and your "surety" will go for a toss.

Corruption Perceptions Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Corruption by country. Definition, graph and map.

The Islamic republic of Pakistan is wayyyyy ahead of India on corruption.

 

[Daredevil]

You just need to look at facts and your "surety" will go for a toss.

Corruption Perceptions Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Corruption by country. Definition, graph and map.

The Islamic republic of Pakistan is wayyyyy ahead of India on corruption.

At least Pakistan is ahead of India in some thing. ;-D

 

[Vinod2070]

When you exclude Younas Khan and Afridi for pointing out such practices, then what you can expect other than foul play by few blue-eyed ones

Why are they not taking any Pushtuns in Pakistan cricket team? Discrimination against the tribals!

 

[Quickgun Murugan]

Its a bad thing that Israel and USA dont play cricket. Else CIA and Mossad would have shared the blame along with RAW for current spot-fixing controversy. Now RAW is all alone :emot180:

 

[Daredevil]

Wow, this cartoon captured the essence of Pakistan players and their backers role in match-fixing.

 

[Quickgun Murugan]

old one.. but really funny

 

[The Messiah]

Oppsssssssssssss CWGs, and other corruption cases in India. Thats sports and if you make a little effort to read the history of this practice in India i am sure you will top the list we may be at number 2

Always missing the point!

Our media and people want kalmadi and co to rot in jail for stealing money.....its not like we are blaming isi for corruption in cwg.

unlike you ofcourse who is still defending traitors.

 

[Daredevil]

Pakistan cricket trio questioned on calls, texts and secret accounts

Three Pakistan cricketers have been questioned by detectives over text messages, phone calls and secret bank accounts linked to alleged match-fixing.

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?"

Hours later, it is claimed, he deliberately bowled a no-ball in the Fourth Test at Lord's. Captain Salman Butt and bowler Mohammad Asif were also questioned.

They were asked about secret accounts in Swiss and British banks, which, according to the News of the World investigation, Mr Majeed said he had set up in their names.

Sources said that the role of Butt, interviewed last by the Scotland Yard detectives, was under closest scrutiny.

It has been reported that £50,000 cash was found in his room by police but he said the money, some in foreign currency, was to pay a dowry for his sister. Police are investigating whether the notes were those handed over by an undercover reporter.

It is believed that Asif has also told investigators that it was Butt who first introduced the players to Mr Majeed, his agent, several years ago.

Sir Ronnie Flanagan, head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, said that, having seen the evidence, all the players "have a really arguable case to answer in our disciplinary arena".

Further revelations this weekend are expected to focus on four more Pakistan cricketers, and claims that the team would deliberately lose two coming one-day matches.

The scandal is being investigated worldwide by five agencies, including federal authorities in Pakistan and Britain's Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

It emerged on Friday evening that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs started looking into Mr Majeed's tax affairs months ago and tapped his phone. They were apparently suspicious of phone calls abroad talking about cricket matches, and tipped off officials.

The disclosure will lead to questions about how long police and cricket authorities knew about the allegations.

As part of the Metropolitan police inquiry into the Lord's incident, Amir was questioned at Kilburn police station in north London yesterday.

The 18 year-old was questioned in the presence of his solicitor over an alleged phone call from Mr Majeed the night before the Lord's match about bowling no-balls.

According to the News of the World, Mr Majeed also said that, before play on the second day, Amir texted him to say: 'Shall I do it or not?'

He then bowled a no-ball in the third ball of the third over, as ordered by Mr Majeed, according to the paper. Asif was questioned next, for two hours. Detectives deliberately left Butt to last. All three players protested their innocence. None was arrested and they were released without charge.

Mr Majeed, 35, was arrested and bailed earlier this week pending further inquiries by Scotland Yard. He is said to deny the allegations. Scotland Yard sources said they were still in the "early days" of a "long and complex" inquiry.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan's High Commissioner, has said the players will remain as long as is required "to clear their names".

 

[Daredevil]

What a bunch of jokers PCB is made of. Will they allow if ICC sue PCB in case these three players proved to be guilty of spot-fixing?

PCB might sue ICC if tainted trio found innocent

Miffed with the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit's handling of the 'spot-fixing' scandal involving Salman Butt Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir, the Pakistan Cricket Board might sue the ACSU if the players are found innocent.

The PCB's senior legal advisor Talib Rizvi told PTI that if the players were eventually found innocent, then the PCB would consider taking legal action against the ICC and other bodies involved in making the allegations and conducting the inquiry against the players.

"I just want to be clear the PCB will consider legal action against the ICC and other bodies if our players are found innocent because we feel the ICC has bypassed some of its own procedures in suspending the players and and overall in this case," Rizvi said.

He also emphasised that at the moment there was no criminal investigation going on against the three players.

"It is just a preliminary inquiry and nothing more. They are being questioned. No investigations have been held," he added.

Rizvi, who also represented the PCB in the appellate tribunal during the hearing of the appeals of players against their bans and fines this year, claimed that so far the ICC had not shown any evidence against the three players.

"Even today at the press conference the ICC and ACSU were asked about the evidence or charges against our players but they gave no details. So we want to know the reasons for suspending the players."

Talib's son, Tafazzul Rizvi is also in London as the board's legal advisor and is closely involved in the ongoing inquiry by the Scotland Yard.

He accompanied the three players yesterday to the Kilburn police station where they were summoned for detailed questioning.

Sources close to the PCB said that until now even Tafazzul Rizvi had not been given any concrete evidence on basis of which the ICC decided to suspend Butt, Asif and Aamir.

Talib said it was too early to say when the inquiry would end or when Scotland Yard would give a detailed report.

"We just feel that the suspension of our players is a bit harsh in the circumstances," he added.

 

[thakur_ritesh]

What a bunch of jokers PCB is made of. Will they allow if ICC sue PCB in case these three players proved to be guilty of spot-fixing?

what if other test playing nations say a no to pakistan for any off shore cricket sighting match fixing, spot fixing, ball tempering, doping as reasons? can such a thing be done with in the rules of the icc?

anyways that suing part is not the pcb but the pak army barking, nothing more and i really dont think pcb would like to take icc head on with out a god father, which in this case would be bcci.

 

[Daredevil]

Pak diplomats embarrassed by 'loose cannon' Hasan

London, Sep 4

Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan has been branded a 'loose cannon' by the diplomats of his own country for his outbursts against the International Cricket Council in the 'spot-fixing' scandal.

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But diplomats at the Pakistani legation in Belgravia are less then amused by his stunning remarks with one of them saying that he felt "depressed" by Hasan's statements to the media.

"I suppose it is quite funny for outsiders, but the rest of us find it embarrassing. Anyway, it'll backfire, I have my own contacts among journalists and I am told they (the News of the World) will produce more things on Sunday," a diplomat was quoted as saying by 'The Independent'.

The unnamed diplomat said Hasan's claims have not just caused embarrassment, they have created a sense of anger against Pakistan.

 

[luckyy]

what coming next !!

few hours left , cricketing world waiting for the next set of evidences which "The News of the World" going to publisthed...

interesting sunday ahead..

 

[Quickgun Murugan]

what if other test playing nations say a no to pakistan for any off shore cricket sighting match fixing, spot fixing, ball tempering, doping as reasons? can such a thing be done with in the rules of the icc?

anyways that suing part is not the pcb but the pak army barking, nothing more and i really dont think pcb would like to take icc head on with out a god father, which in this case would be bcci.

It will be individual cricket boards decision not to play cricket with Pakistan, not ICC's. I think Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh will always play with Pakistan irrespective of whatever.