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     Ustad Side Hero Username: Ustad Post Number: 3722 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 76.173.42.80 Rating: N/A |
Also add Afridi's test retirement drama...I think he did this couple of times | ||
| Senapathy Junior Artist Username: Senapathy Post Number: 843 Registered: 01-2009 Posted From: 66.75.19.11 Rating: N/A |
Pak cricket team lo unnanta dishonesty ekkada ledu ee era lo.  Afridi gaadu ball korukudu endo, Asif gaadi daggara drugs undudu endo.. Akhthar gaadu bat tho Asif gaadini kottudu endo.. Yusuf gaani drama retirements endo Chuss.. Amir gaadu talent undi kaani ilaanti panulu cheste dukanam muyyalsinde | ||
| Senapathy Junior Artist Username: Senapathy Post Number: 842 Registered: 01-2009 Posted From: 66.75.19.11 Rating: N/A |
Source : Cricinfo The fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's is at the centre of a police investigation into spot-fixing, after a 35-year-old man was arrested after allegedly being caught offering to bribe Pakistan's bowlers to bowl no-balls on demand. According to a report in The News of the World, Mazher Majeed accepted £150,000 to arrange a fix involving Pakistan's new-ball bowlers, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, whom he allegedly asked to bowl no-balls at specific moments of the match. The paper also alleges that the team captain, Salman Butt, and the wicketkeeper, Kamran Akmal, are involved, along with three other unnamed cricketers. Cricinfo understands from a source close to the investigation that a sum of £25,000 was found in the room of one of the Pakistan players, with further sums of £3000-4000 found on two other players. The source also confirmed that Mazher was known to the team, but in an informal capacity, and added that they fully expected to resume the Lord's Test on Sunday morning. In a video secretly recorded during the NOTW investigation, a man alleged to be Mazher is clearly heard predicting that Amir would bowl the first over of the England innings, and that he would deliver a no-ball from the first ball of the third over - which as Cricinfo's ball-by-ball commentary noted: "was an enormous no-ball, good half a metre over the line." The man also appeared to correctly predict a no-ball from the sixth ball of the tenth over, bowled this time by Asif. A Scotland Yard spokeman said: "Following information received from the News of the World we have today [Saturday, August 28] arrested a 35-year old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers." Pakistan's team manager Yawar Saeed confirmed to Sky News that the allegations were being investigated, with police turning up at the team hotel in Swiss Cottage at 7.30pm, shortly after the close of an eventful third day of the Lord's Test, in which Pakistan were left on the brink of defeat after losing 14 wickets in the day. According to Sky News reporters outside the team hotel, police officers were seen leaving the building with two bags at around 11pm, while an unidentified man in a Pakistan training top was understood to have been taken away in an unmarked police car from the back of the building, although the team manager denied that any arrests had been made within the squad. Even allowing for their disastrous on-field performance, Pakistan left Lord's with unusual haste after the third day's play, with the team bus departing barely 20 minutes after the close of play, before any member of the squad had taken part in the mandatory post-match press conference. |
