Man arrested over England v Pakistan cricket match-fixing allegations

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Man arrested over England v Pakistan cricket match-fixing allegations

Police arrest man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers during current Test at Lord's

Ben Quinn
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 August 2010

Police arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers earlier today following allegations of match-fixing during the current cricket Test match between England and Pakistan.

The penultimate day of the Test at Lord's gets underway tomorrow morning overshadowed by allegations in the News of the World that a number of members of the Pakistan team were involved in cheating during the current match.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Following information received from the News of the World we have today arrested a 35-year old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers."

The newspaper alleged that two bowlers, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, delivered three deliberate no-balls against England yesterday and on Thursday, in line with the predications of an alleged middleman in London who met undercover reporters posing as members of a gambling cartel.

The News of the World reported that a man it named as Mazhar Majeed, an alleged match-fixer, had taken £150,000 in order to let the undercover team in on an alleged match-fixing scam.

Information such as the exact number of no-balls and the moments in matches when they might take place would be of major value to betting sydnicates.

There is no suggestion that the results of the Test have been fixed or that any of the England players were aware of the alleged actions of their Pakistani counterparts.

The England team is understood to be aware of the claims and is currently expecting tomorrow's play to go ahead as scheduled. The match, the fourth in the series, was poised on a knife edge as England held a slender 2-1 lead.

However, England look close to an innings victory and a 3-1 series win after taking 14 Pakistan wickets on the third day of the final Test.

Man arrested over England v Pakistan cricket match-fixing allegations | Sport | guardian.co.uk

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Breaking News: Pakistan Cricket Scandal As Star Players Win £150,000
By David Moulson (Featured Columnist) on August 28, 2010 0


With their country in turmoil over the recent flooding and mass devastation, Pakistan's Cricketers are earning a stash of money in England by betting on different occasions during the on-going match at Lord's.

The home of cricket is the centre of the major investigation into the corruption concerning SEVEN test playing Pakistani's. Pakistan bowling stars Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir are the major culprits at the centre of the storm revealed by the News of the World newspaper.

Amir and Asif both bowled no balls on the procise time that a man, who was doing the betting for the players, had put a bet on for the stars. £150k has been won on this test match, with the money coming on No Balls being bowled at procise times in the match. Mahzeer Majeed is the ring leader along with Pakistani captain Salman Butt, with Amir and Asif bowling three BLATANT no balls, over stepping by quite some distance.

Majeed has said to have SEVEN clients including Mohammed Asif, Mohammed Amir, Salman Butt and also wicket keeper Kamran Akmal. All have been named and shamed by the newspaper with the skipper being the ring leader of the pack.

The players fuelled by greed have been said to be betting all series but nothing can been proven except for the catch that the newspaper has got in this article.

The breaking news will shock the cricketing world and with so many cheating storms already filed against Pakistan, the wonder is on what the ICC will do on this occasion.

Breaking News: Pakistan Cricket Scandal As Star Players Win £150,000 | Bleacher Report

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Pakistan skipper Butt refuses to quit despite probe
By Julian Guyer (AFP) – 42 minutes ago

LONDON — Pakistan captain Salman Butt insisted he would not be resigning after being implicated in an alleged betting scam which has rocked cricket.

Britain's News of the World newspaper claimed it paid 150,000 pounds (230,000 dollars, 185,000 euros) to a middle man in return for details about the timing of three no-balls in the fourth Test at Lord's.

That ended Sunday in victory for England by an innings and 225 runs - Pakistan's heaviest Test defeat of all time.

The report alleged Pakistan seamers Mohammad Aamer - the tourists' man of the series - and Mohammad Asif delivered the blatant no-balls at the exact points in the match agreed with the alleged fixer, who it was also suggested by the paper, was in contact with Butt.

However, Butt who inherited the captaincy after Shahid Afridi quit Test cricket following Pakistan's 150-run loss to Australia at Lord's last month, was in defiant mood.

The 25-year-old batsman pointed out how under his leadership Pakistan had bounced back to draw 1-1 against Australia and beaten England at The Oval last week before defeat at Lord's meant a four-match series was lost 3-1.

"Pakistan has won a Test match against Australia for the first time in 15 years and against England for the first time in nine years," Butt said.

"Does that make me resign from this current situation?"

Butt was invited several times to say if the allegations were untrue but he replied by saying: "They include quite a few people and they are still ongoing and we will see what happens.

"I haven't heard any allegations, except just taking my name. There's nothing I've seen or been shown on TV that involves me."

Pakistan tour manager Yawar Saeed, speaking at a Lord's news conference alongside Butt, told reporters: "As far as the allegations are concerned, I would still call them allegations.

"It's not really for me within 24 hours to pass a judgement on whether they are true or not."

On Butt's future, Saeed added: "I don't think you should ask if someone will resign on allegations. Let's wait until the case is complete."

Saeed, when asked if the newspaper report proved Pakistan cricket was "institutionally corrupt", said: "I would not like to say that."

"This is the first time I've been the manager and we've been involved in such a thing."

Saeed also confirmed Butt, Aamer and Asif had their mobile telephones taken away by police on Saturday after being spoken to about the allegations.

"The three gentlemen have had their phones confiscated."

Meanwhile, Butt added: "Anybody can stand out and say anything about you, that doesn't make them true."

He insisted his team had given their all throughout.

"Definitely we have tried our best. It's just that the conditions have been difficult for the batsmen and remember this is a very inexperienced team, especially the batting.

"These guys are young with the least experience and in these difficult conditions they might struggle.

"Every person in my team has given 100 percent and all the efforts he could but not every time do you achieve what you want to."

Pakistan were bowled out for 147 on Sunday, a marked improvement on their first innings 74 at Lord's if still a low total.

"We didn't play good cricket, England played a lot better cricket in this game," Butt said.

Teenage left-arm quick Aamer took 19 wickets in the four Tests against England at a cheap average of under 19 apiece.

And the 18-year-old became the youngest bowler to 50 Test wickets in the course of taking six for 84 in England's 446 at Lord's.

"Mohammad Aamer is a young bowler who has done very well so far in his career, all over the world," said Saeed.

"Certainly, he's a little disappointed because his name has come through but we and he will wait until the investigations are over. Only then can we say... if he comes through clean, there's nothing better than that."

As for the mood in the Pakistan dressing room at Lord's on Sunday, he added: "Obviously we are not delighted about it. We are sad and it was very sober feelings in the dressing room."

Saeed added he was due to meet with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt, already in London, later on Sunday.

Meanwhile England captain Andrew Strauss agreed the allegations had "removed the gloss" from his side's victory.

"The mood was rather sombre. Cricket was in the headlines for the worst of reasons," Strauss said.

He added any player found guilty of match-fixing ought to receive a life-ban.

"If someone is found categorically guilty of doing it the only way for me is for that person not to play international cricket again," he said.

England and Pakistan are due to play two Twenty20 and five one-day internationals, starting in Cardiff a week on Sunday.

Before that Pakistan play county side Somerset in Taunton on Thursday.

AFP: Pakistan skipper Butt refuses to quit despite probe

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Malaise in Pakistan team can be traced to money, or the lack of it

What goes on behind the scenes is straight out of the House of Incest


Dileep Premachandran
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 August 2010 17.07 BST

To understand why Pakistan cricket finds itself in such a mess, you have to go back a little over a decade to a two-year inquiry into match-fixing. Malik Mohammad Qayyum was a judge in the Lahore high court when he was asked to lift the lid off nearly a decade of scandal, a litany of misdemeanours that dated back to the summer of 1992, soon after Imran Khan had held the World Cup aloft in Melbourne.

In the words of Osman Samiuddin, Cricinfo's Pakistan editor: "The Qayyum report was a classic Pakistani attempt at inquiry, one which bathes in its ambiguity and smells fresh of cover-up afterwards." Two men were banned for life based on his findings but the 37-year-old Salim Malik had not played since the World Cup defeat to India at Old Trafford (June 1999) and Ata-ur-Rehman had won his final cap on the tour of England in 1996. The feeling persisted that they took the fall because they were expendable.

Those Qayyum absolved, without ever exonerating, were some of the biggest names in the game – Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed and Saeed Anwar. Each of them was fined though and the case against fell apart because of a lack of "positive proof".

When the News of the World broke its story, Qayyum certainly was not short of a word or two. "The latest shame fell on Pakistan only because my recommendations were not fully implemented," he said. "Had my report on match-fixing been fully implemented, this latest episode would not have happened. I suggested the Pakistan Cricket Board keep tight vigil on the players and recommended some of the players should not be given any responsibility in team matters, but some of them are still involved in the team's coaching."

But this is the same Qayyum who created a stir when India toured Pakistan in early 2006, by admitting to a Cricinfo journalist that he had been lenient with one or two players because he "had a soft spot for them". It is also the same man who had to resign his high court position after a phone transcript suggested that he had conspired with Nawaz Sharif, then prime minister, to manipulate a case involving the late Benazir Bhutto. Qayyum, of course, denied the allegations.

What goes on behind the scenes in Pakistan cricket is straight out of the House of Incest. The patron-in-chief is Asif Ali Zardari, the president who was swanning about in French chateaus when millions of his subjects were struggling to cope with floods of Biblical proportions. Ijaz Butt, the board president under whose watch the nation's cricket has become a global joke, is the brother-in-law of Ahmad Mukhtar, the defence minister of Pakistan.

Imran Farhat, one of the openers in the current side, is the son-in-law of Mohammad Ilyas, a former Test player and PCB employee. Ijaz Ahmed, part of the coaching dispensation under Waqar Younis, is married to the sister of the disgraced Malik. He was accused of issuing fake cheques last year and, soon after the case was thrown out by the courts, was appointed coach of the Under-19 side, who got to the final of the World Cup earlier this year.

Look, too, at the men involved with the current tour. Waqar was fined following the Qayyum Commission. Yawar Saeed, the tour manager, was removed from his post earlier after it was discovered that dubious characters had been staying on the same floor as the team during a tour of Sri Lanka last year. Shafqat Rana, a former selector, has been accused in the past of taking bribes from players, one of whom – Wahab Riaz – helped to set up Pakistan's victory at The Oval.

This intricate back-scratching network aside, the malaise can be traced to money, or lack of it. Back in 2000, Qayyum had recommended that "the PCB increase the pay of its Cricketers and develop for them more avenues of income ... Pakistani players for all their talent are not as well-paid as their counterparts abroad. As long as they are underpaid the tendency to be bribed remains."

Little has changed since. The £4,000 cheque Mohammad Amir received for being Pakistan's player of the series was three times the monthly retainer he gets from the PCB. It is just over half of what Ishant Sharma, India's most exciting bowling prospect when he signed for the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008, got for every ball he bowled in the Indian Premier League.

There were more than a few whispers of discontent when central contracts were signed earlier this year. The players were uneasy about a clause that made it compulsory for a player and his agent to seek the permission of the board before signing a contract with a foreign club or team. Under the terms agreed to, a player would have forfeited his retainer during the months that he played elsewhere.

A senior Urdu journalist had drawn attention to the activities of the Majeed brothers, Azhar and Mazhar – the latter of whom was at the centre of the News of the World's allegations yesterday — even before the scandal broke. According to the Pakistan team management, there were supposedly instructions not to allow them access to the players. But given that they've allegedly represented everyone from Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf to Shahid Afridi and Salman Butt, those were not worth the paper they were printed on.

"To those disappointed with their fallen heroes, it be suggested that humans are fallible," said Qayyum in conclusion. "Cricketers are only cricketers. Please maintain a sense of perspective when you react and criticise."

Perspective? It was not always like this. Back in the 1960s, when Majid Khan, who would go on to star for both the national side and Glamorgan, arrived for trials, Jahangir Khan, his father, tendered his resignation as selector. It is perhaps just as well that men such as he and Fazal Mahmood, whose sweat and toil were responsible for so many of Pakistan cricket's early highlights, are not alive to see this darkest day.

"Two ghosts have haunted Pakistan this decade: Osama bin Laden and the Fixed Match," wrote Samiuddin in his article on fixing. The first remains elusive and the second refuses to go away. But before tearing into the players, some of them so young and naive, we would do well to heed the words of Brian Lara. "I don't think you'd see an indisciplined team if you have a disciplined board," he said when asked about the troubles in the Caribbean. "If you have a disciplined board, they would know exactly what they want from their players. You need to see the whole spiral, where it starts from."

Unless Pakistan cricket takes note of that, it will die many more deaths. And there will not be anyone left to care.

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Asif ex-lover backs match-fixing claims

31 August 2010 | 11:37:20


The ex-girlfriend of Pakistan cricketer Mohammed Asif has said he told her the Pakistani team would not win a single match on its Australian tour last year.


Pakistani players to face treason charge

Aussie cricketers 'approached by fixer'


Model-actress Veena Malik has told Pakistan's Express News Network that Asif said in a phone call that Pakistan planned to throw the Test series in Australia but did not admit to being involved.

"When Pakistan started losing in Australia, I jokingly said 'for God's sake, win a match.' To this, he replied 'we won't win anything until 2010'," she told the Express News Network.

She also alledged that Asif made a visit to bookmakers in Bangkok prior to leaving for Australia in December.

"One day, he got business-class tickets and went to Bangkok," she said to Express News .

"He told me that he was offered $40,000. I advised him not to be part of such activities but he did not listen. Instead, he went ahead and demanded $200,000."

Malik said Asif had admitted the team was involved in match-fixing from head to toe.

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Tainted officers named for match-fixing probe

Thursday, September 02, 2010
By Umar Cheema

ISLAMABAD: FIA officials, who were previously sacked from service on corruption charges and later reinstated through different means, are likely to be part of the team departing for London to help Scotland Yard in the match-fixing probe against the Pakistan team, but officials say no notification has yet been issued by the PM House. The team is being constituted despite a public statement by the Pakistan High Commission that no FIA team could or would come to London to join Scotland Yard in the probe.

An FIA director Inam Ghani is supposed to head the FIA team which will be accompanied by two infamous subordinates, Agha Ishrat and Tahir Durrani. Agha Ishrat, an Assistant Director of the FIA, has had a NAB corruption reference pending against him, remained dismissed and was later reinstated. His name was enlisted with Ahmad Riaz Sheikh, Chaudhry Sharif and eight other officers on charges of amassing assets beyond known means in the late 90s when Maj Gen (R) Enayatullah Niazi, was DG FIA.

Tahir Durrani, an FIA inspector who is likely to be part of the team is choice of Inam Ghani, team leader and their friendship dates back to college days. Durrani was twice dismissed from service by two successive DGs of FIA, Tariq Pervaiz and Tariq Khosa but each time got reinstated by Kamal Shah, the then Secretary Interior, who is discredited for reinstating other notorious characters as well, like Sajjad Haider.

However, the leader of the team, Inam Ghani told The News that the FIA has also to look for competency besides considering their integrity. Inam Ghani is considered an officer of repute but ethnicity comes first and merit later on, said officials who closely worked with him.

Inam Ghani confirmed that Tahir Durrani remained his college fellow in Peshawar’s Edwardes College and that he proposed his name as the accompanying official for London visit but he has now been dropped as DG FIA nominated Agha Ishrat.

Asked that Agha Ishrat does not have a good reputation and how could they probe a case of corruption, he said his name had been recommended by DG FIA Zafrullah Khan. Incidentally DG FIA Zafrullah Khan has himself remained under NAB inquiry on corruption charges and his brother Khalid, posted on an important position in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, also spent four years in jail on corruption charges.

Inam Ghani said no notification had yet been issued by the PM Secretariat. He said he had also watched the statement by the Pakistan High Commission that no FIA team could come to London on TV but there was no intimation in writing nor it was required because notification by the PM has yet to be issued.

Agha Ishrat is believed to be very thick with the top rulers and has his second home in Canada where he is known as a generous host to visiting dignitaries. Agha who belonged to very humble background is said to be a replica of Ahmad Riaz Sheikh who is also very close to the top PPP leadership.

Agha was among those marked for possessing assets beyond known means. A NAB reference was filed against him and it is still pending. He was dismissed from service as he fled to Canada and was later reinstated by the Dogar court. Agha is presently posted in FIA Karachi.

Tahir Durrani, FIA Inspector, who was initially proposed to accompany Inam Ghani for the match-fixing probe is another known character, very powerful. Former DG FIA, Tariq Pervaiz had him dismissed from service on two different charges of illegal immigration but his connections helped him and he was reinstated.

Kamal Shah, former Secretary Interior, had him reinstated and ordered a fresh inquiry into allegations against him. Tariq Khosa who succeeded Tariq Pervaiz as DG FIA again dismissed Durrani in the light of the inquiry ordered by the secretary.

However Kamal Shah again reinstated Durrani. Although Khosa could not defy the secretary interior’s decision, he then declared Durrani as persona non grata and he remained so, as long as Khosa was in charge. Durrani who was previously serving in FIA immigration at Peshawar Airport, was later appointed again at Departure section of the immigration at Islamabad Airport.

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Profiles of Pakistan players in scam scandal

Agence France-Presse
Karachi, September 01, 2010

Profiles of the three Pakistan players embroiled in betting scam allegations who have been summoned to face cricket and government authorities for questioning in London on Wednesday.

Salman Butt

The 25-year-old, interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives about the alleged blatant no-balls bowled in the fourth Test against England at Lord's last month, was appointed Pakistan captain on July 17.

His rise to the top came after Shahid Afridi announced his retirement from Test cricket, with Butt becoming the team's 28th skipper overall and fifth since January 2009.

After schooling in his home city of Lahore, Butt earned a place on the national under-17 team before selectors finally drafted him into the senior squad in 2003, making his debut against Bangladesh.

A left-handed opening batsman, he has a determined air about him and is one of the few younger players in the team confident when speaking English.

His breakthrough came in 2004 when he scored his first one-day century against India at Eden Gardens and then went on to notch a maiden Test century in Sydney later in the year.

He has so far played in 33 Tests, scoring 1,889 runs at an average of 30.46 with a top score of 122.

Mohammad Aamer

Aamer is one two bowlers claimed to have delivered no-balls at the exact point in last month's Lord's Test against England that were agreed with alleged fixer Mazhar Majeed.

The 18-year-old left-arm seamer has risen rapidly through the ranks after being spotted aged 11 and moving from his remote village of Gujjar Khan to a sports academy in Rawalpindi.

The youngest of seven children, he came through Pakistan's under-19 side and impressed with his swing and pace, attributes which led to experts comparing him with former Pakistan left-arm great Wasim Akram.

Heralded as a star in the making, he took a career-best six wickets in England's only innings at the Lord's match before Pakistan succumbed to a record Test drubbing.

Aamer made his debut in July 2009 against Sri Lanka and has since played 14 Tests, bagging 51 wickets at an average of 29.09.

Mohammad Asif

Asif, the other bowler implicated in the spot-fixing allegations, is no stranger to controversy with the 27-year-old's career having more lows than highs.

Like Aamer, he hails from a poor, remote village and got his break in January 2005 against Australia after impressing in domestic Pakistani cricket.

But he bowled 18 overs without taking a wicket and was dropped, only to return a year later.

A lucrative contract with Leicestershire in the English county championship followed but he struggled to handle the pressure and tested positive for a banned steroid in 2006.

He was banned for a year but this was overturned on appeal. Asif again failed a drugs test in the inaugural Indian Premier League season in 2008 and this time a two-year ban stood.

Even after the IPL ban ended, Asif's career was hit by a scandal with a film star, who alleged he owed her huge amounts of money in debts.

But Asif promised he had reformed. Compared to Australian great Glenn McGrath for his accurate pace, he fulfilled his promise and in recent months rose to the top of the International Cricket Council bowlers' rankings.

He has so far claimed 106 wickets in 23 Tests at an average of 24.36.

Profiles of Pakistan players in scam scandal - Hindustan Times

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ICC rejects Pakistan's conspiracy theory

The ICC today rejected Pakistan's conspiracy theory behind the suspension of three of its players in connection with the 'spot-fixing' scandal and said clear indications were given about the impending action.

It also said the three cricketers have a "case to answer" but refused to specify the charges against them.

Addressing a press conference here, ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat dismissed a question that the action was taken to keep Pakistan out of international cricket.

"The very reason I met your High Commissioner Wajid Hassan was to give a clear indication that we are coming to a conclusion and that we will be serving a notice. I differ with the Pakistan High Commission's interpretation of the meet. I indicated to him about issuing the notice," he said.

Earlier in the day, Hassan attacked the ICC saying it had taken an unethical decision and sought to insinuate that ICC President Sharad Pawar had a hand in it.



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A poor excuse for this descent into corruption

By Martin Samuel
3rd September 2010

Some years ago when my wife worked as a nurse on a geriatric ward, some money belonging to one of the patients went missing. The family made a big fuss, which was understandable, but levelled a groundless accusation that a member of the nursing staff must have stolen it.
eventually, the money turned up - somewhere unexpected because old ladies can get confused, hide valuables for safekeeping and then forget about them.

Suddenly, the family were gushing apologies. 'oh, I never thought it could be one of you girls,' the daughter said, rather underplaying the strength of her initial allegation. 'You're angels.'

'No, dear, we're not angels,' said the ward sister, witheringly, 'but we're not thieves, either.'

And neither are poor people. Poverty might promote an eye for a good deal, a fast buck, even a nice little earner, but it is not a free pass to life lived without integrity.

The idea that Pakistan's cricketers have a history of cheating because they are unsatisfactorily rewarded by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is an insult to those who strive each day to live honestly within their means.
It does not follow that because a man is poor, he becomes a crook.

Poverty may be a contributing factor to crime in some cases but far from all, and in comparison to the humble citizens in their homeland, the life of a Pakistan cricketer is hardly shabby. matches, or moments within matches, do not have to be fixed to make ends meet or achieve parity.

Pakistan's professional cricketers are not paid as much as their neighbours in India, but the same could be said of Premier League footballers in Scotland and england. The goalkeeper for Hamilton Academical does not throw one in every couple of weeks to pay the mortgage, he just accepts living in a smaller house than Wayne Rooney.

The central contract that ties a cricketer to the PCB is worth roughly £25,000 annually. The same arrangement in england can amount to anything from £150,000 to £400,000.
Then again, Karachi was recently na
med as the cheapest city in the world in which to live, and all contracts are relative to the country of employment. In Britain, private healthcare is a standard perk for a valued member of staff because the public health system is seen as flawed; in countries where state health cover is considered sufficient, alternate benefits are offered, perhaps towards accommodation or childcare.

Sachin Tendulkar, the hero of cricket in India, earned more than £6 million last year, much of which came from endorsing products. Yet, as cricket in Pakistan is regularly associated with corruption, who would want to sponsor the players anyway?

Imran Khan, Pakistan's most prominent cricketer, was a brilliant all-rounder and a cultured, handsome man. Above all, he was straight. over the two decades when he played, many reputable companies sought his official approval. If the current generation of Pakistan cricketers struggle to secure similar commercial backing, is it any wonder?

MoHAmmAd Amir, the teenager at the eye of the storm of alleged match fixing, is a fabulously gifted bowler, with a winning smile and good looks. He could be even greater than Imran. Yet who would want him pictured on their behalf now? 'mohammad Amir, noted cheat, wears Rolex'? No thank you.
The pervasion of gambling in modern sport is also advanced in mitigation, as if it is beyond human endeavour to resist temptation.

To say that there is a logical progression from gambling websites to Pakistan cricketers cheating is akin to arguing that because there is a Ladbrokes in the High Street, you will feel motivated to fix the 4.15 at Plumpton. The President of the United States has the nuclear option on his desk. He doesn't have to press the button.

There is nothing more patronising than the notion that anyone suffering reduced circumstances can be excused moral bankruptcy, nothing more dangerously indulgent than the belief that Pakistan's cricketers could not be expected to play simply for pride, honour, the privilege of an exalted existence and the pure love of their sport. even the mighty Imran Khan, by his own admission, picked at the odd seam.

Nobody is expecting cricketers to be angels, but we cannot excuse them becoming thieves.

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