Scaly piscine
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What a ****ing joke. What sort of complete ****ing morons accept that shower of **** he came up with. Snooker is dead in every tournament until that **** gets knocked out.
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***Official*** Spot-Fixing Scandal
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four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Haha, unbelievable. Hope cricket has more backbone than that. And the cricket looks worse doesn't it, since they actually bowled the no-balls?
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
So now there is a choice of tested escape routes - the Grobbelaar defence or the Higgins gambit - perhaps the average citizen just hates the redtops more than they hate bent sportmen as both, frankly, beggar belief
Or maybe its just the culture of celebrity - wasn't there an equally ludicrous excuse used by a well known 1960's guitarist to avoid a child porn prosecution?
Or maybe its just the culture of celebrity - wasn't there an equally ludicrous excuse used by a well known 1960's guitarist to avoid a child porn prosecution?
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Who?
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Pete Townshend - didn't mention him as I didn't want to say anything defamatory but on a brief google its all in the public domain and he copped a caution for it
BoyBrumby
Englishman
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Deliberate, surely?
Best pun of the day, surely?
chicane
State Captain
haha
BoyBrumby
Englishman
That was my assumption, yeah.Deliberate, surely?
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Never spotted that - not sure what that says about me and probs best I don't think too much about it 
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
You'd know. You're right there with him
Karapincha
Cricket Spectator
Not sure if you lads have heard, but since this story broke, information that a few Sri Lankans are also under the ICC's scanner has emerged. Watson has also claimed that Aussies were approached but they reported it. I don't doubt that every team has been approached at one point or the other.
AaronK
State Regular
here is an interesting article that probably states why Younis and Afridi quit captaincy.. this also proves what i have been saying all along that some PCB officials are involve in this.. i won't be surprise if Ijaz Butt is one of them.
EXCLUSIVE
Team management ignored Salman Butt’s suspicious links
By Shahid Hashmi/Karachi
A tall man clad in Pakistan player Mohammad Asif’s official tracksuit was stopped at the gate of the Marriott Hotel in Swiss Cottage, London. Mazhar Majeed was later let in because he was in official kit.
Declared persona non grata by the team management, the alleged match-fixer had access to players’ rooms and the playing field! Sometimes his brother, Azhar Majeed, accompanied him. Pakistan coach Waqar Younis had snubbed Mazhar by refusing to shake hands with him after the team won the Leeds Test against Australia in July.
A month later, News of the World reporters trapped Mazhar as he gloated about making seven Pakistani players under-perform on various occasions. Mazhar said he paid bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif to bowl no-balls during the Lord’s Test and paid captain Salman Butt for playing a maiden over in the team’s historic win at The Oval.
These revelations have put the spotlight back on Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Why was an outsider let into the team hotel and ground? How did he get an official tracksuit? And, why was action not taken after Shahid Afridi reported that two men were tailing the team in the guise of marketing managers during the Lord’s Test against Australia? Team sources said it was Butt who let the Majeeds into the team hotel. Butt then introduced them to Aamer and others in the team.
Said a Pakistan player: “The management just warned the players but did not keep a check. Manager Yawar Saeed and his deputy, Shafqat Rana, sleep early as they are old. Security manager Khawaja Najam is not competent.”
The Majeeds were present in Australia, too, when Pakistan lost the Sydney Test. Mazhar told reporters that he won £1.8 million there. Pakistan, then T20 world champion, lost the sole T20 match there by two runs. Big-hitter Rana Naved-ul-Hasan managed just one run off nine balls!
After the tour, the PCB formed an inquiry committee, and tour coach Intikhab Alam deposed that match-fixing cost Pakistan the Sydney Test. Alam’s deputy, Aaqib Javed, named Kamran Akmal. Sadly, the PCB sacked Alam while dropping Kamran for the two T20 matches against England in February. It told the press that Kamran was being rested.
After the T20 matches in England, Pakistan banned Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf for infighting, banned Shoaib Malik and Naved for one year and heavily fined Afridi, Kamran and his younger brother, Umar Akmal. PCB chairman Ijaz Butt told a National Assembly Committee that two players were banned on the ICC’s advice. But minutes later, he backed out saying, “I was referring to an old case.”
A few months later Pakistan was in Sri Lanka to play Tests and Younis Khan reported that a bookie had access to the team hotel. Manager Yawar Saeed paid no heed. He said: “It was not serious and once the matter was reported to us, we changed the floor and nothing happened thereafter.”
Pakistan lost the first Test. They had eight wickets intact on the final day and needed just 80 runs to win. Butt played a rash shot and the rest followed him. Captain Younis Khan was left fuming. He had earlier reported Butt as “one of the players who received posh gifts from an Indian businessman” during the team’s India tour in 2007. That report prompted the ACSU to interrogate Butt, Umar Gul and Danish Kaneria in early 2008. Even then, the PCB refused to act.
Realising that Younis Khan will never sell his country, the match-fixers decided to get rid of him saying he has an attitude problem. Sources said they swore it on the Holy Quran. But Younis himself relinquished captaincy, making it easy for them. Then, Shahid Afridi left the Test team. Thereafter, it was all in Butt’s hands.
http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-...0&pageTypeId=1073754893&contentType=EDITORIAL
EXCLUSIVE
Team management ignored Salman Butt’s suspicious links
By Shahid Hashmi/Karachi
A tall man clad in Pakistan player Mohammad Asif’s official tracksuit was stopped at the gate of the Marriott Hotel in Swiss Cottage, London. Mazhar Majeed was later let in because he was in official kit.
Declared persona non grata by the team management, the alleged match-fixer had access to players’ rooms and the playing field! Sometimes his brother, Azhar Majeed, accompanied him. Pakistan coach Waqar Younis had snubbed Mazhar by refusing to shake hands with him after the team won the Leeds Test against Australia in July.
A month later, News of the World reporters trapped Mazhar as he gloated about making seven Pakistani players under-perform on various occasions. Mazhar said he paid bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif to bowl no-balls during the Lord’s Test and paid captain Salman Butt for playing a maiden over in the team’s historic win at The Oval.
These revelations have put the spotlight back on Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Why was an outsider let into the team hotel and ground? How did he get an official tracksuit? And, why was action not taken after Shahid Afridi reported that two men were tailing the team in the guise of marketing managers during the Lord’s Test against Australia? Team sources said it was Butt who let the Majeeds into the team hotel. Butt then introduced them to Aamer and others in the team.
Said a Pakistan player: “The management just warned the players but did not keep a check. Manager Yawar Saeed and his deputy, Shafqat Rana, sleep early as they are old. Security manager Khawaja Najam is not competent.”
The Majeeds were present in Australia, too, when Pakistan lost the Sydney Test. Mazhar told reporters that he won £1.8 million there. Pakistan, then T20 world champion, lost the sole T20 match there by two runs. Big-hitter Rana Naved-ul-Hasan managed just one run off nine balls!
After the tour, the PCB formed an inquiry committee, and tour coach Intikhab Alam deposed that match-fixing cost Pakistan the Sydney Test. Alam’s deputy, Aaqib Javed, named Kamran Akmal. Sadly, the PCB sacked Alam while dropping Kamran for the two T20 matches against England in February. It told the press that Kamran was being rested.
After the T20 matches in England, Pakistan banned Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf for infighting, banned Shoaib Malik and Naved for one year and heavily fined Afridi, Kamran and his younger brother, Umar Akmal. PCB chairman Ijaz Butt told a National Assembly Committee that two players were banned on the ICC’s advice. But minutes later, he backed out saying, “I was referring to an old case.”
A few months later Pakistan was in Sri Lanka to play Tests and Younis Khan reported that a bookie had access to the team hotel. Manager Yawar Saeed paid no heed. He said: “It was not serious and once the matter was reported to us, we changed the floor and nothing happened thereafter.”
Pakistan lost the first Test. They had eight wickets intact on the final day and needed just 80 runs to win. Butt played a rash shot and the rest followed him. Captain Younis Khan was left fuming. He had earlier reported Butt as “one of the players who received posh gifts from an Indian businessman” during the team’s India tour in 2007. That report prompted the ACSU to interrogate Butt, Umar Gul and Danish Kaneria in early 2008. Even then, the PCB refused to act.
Realising that Younis Khan will never sell his country, the match-fixers decided to get rid of him saying he has an attitude problem. Sources said they swore it on the Holy Quran. But Younis himself relinquished captaincy, making it easy for them. Then, Shahid Afridi left the Test team. Thereafter, it was all in Butt’s hands.
http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-...0&pageTypeId=1073754893&contentType=EDITORIAL
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Not usually a Henry fan, but Geoff Lawson does have a much better insight into the Pakistani culture than all the other Australian writers.
Players may face mafia threats - Cricket - Fox Sports
A bit sensationalist at times, but better than listening to journalists sitting in the ivory tower.
Players may face mafia threats - Cricket - Fox Sports
A bit sensationalist at times, but better than listening to journalists sitting in the ivory tower.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Genuinely scary stuff. I sympathise, I really do, but if this Karachi Mafia threat is going to be held up as mitigation for the alleged misdeeds I seriously think the ICC would have to look at Pakistan's continued involvement in international cricket at all until such as (what looks like) the endemic corruption is under control.
I think I'd really prefer to believe it was the greed of a few rather than chronic corruption of the whole country, although Lawson in a better position to judge than I am, clearly.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
The part that I found interesting was where he talks about it being offensive to refuse a "gift". It creates a situation where there is a moral ambiguity about accepting a bribe that isn't there in other cultures.
andyc
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
SpaceMonkey
International Debutant
Apologies if this has been posted before as its a day old but:
Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Asif considers asylum in Britain - Telegraph
Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Asif considers asylum in Britain - Telegraph