Unconfirmed reports are just coming in that the cash used by the News of the World journalists during the sting operation on Mr. Majeed was found to be with Salman Butt. NDTV Cricket reports: According to a report in the Daily Mail, Scotland Yard officers would question Butt on Friday over how marked notes were [...]
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There’s this little hit-and-giggle tea party around the corner, I think they call it the Champions League. I am almost a journalist for this post because I had to actually go research which teams are playing, I couldn’t just make it up. Chennai Super Kings, Warriors, Victoria, Wayamba, Central Districts, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, [...]
The news is old now and everybody knows but, in case you missed it, here is again, with a picture and everything. That’s what happens when you block people on Twitter for no good reason, KP. The good news out of all of this is that he has gone to Surrey which means I can [...]
The only other South African we know who has a sense of humour @MrSmithMachine has been posting some very funny posts on his posterous. We thought we would share it with you. It was too soon yesterday, kinda like the Fiona Coyne Weakest Link jokes that followed just a few hours after her death were [...]
Ah, match-fixing. Or match-fixing allegations, anyway. There’s a lot of noise being made about that at the moment. Big noise, too. And all us cricket tragics have dived head first into tragedy. We just love a little bit of drama, don’t we? All this white clothes stuff, how boring, give us action, give us satisfaction! [...]
After Geoff Lawson’s column in The Telegraph where he revealed that during his tenure as Pakistan coach a selector had his daughter’s life threatened, ANI have spoken to somebody who say is Mohammed Aamer’s brother. Naturally his brother would defend him, nobody is surprised by that. “My brother is innocent. He has been trapped in [...]
Michael Holding crying – Freecricket.TV
Latest reports are that Pakistan cricketers face charges of treason and they have to stand trial on Septmeber 7. In Pakistan, the maximum punishment for treason is death. [source AFP, The Age - Australia} The Daily Mail reports that the three players who stand accused will be suspended for the ODI series against England (source: [...]
Many people have been asking whether South Africa’s tour of UAE and games with Pakistan will go ahead. CSA issued a statement this morning indicating that they have to honour the agreement. How many people will actually pitch up to watch these games or switch on the tele to follow, is another story. Pakistan also [...]
Just as I was starting to feel better and as I was about to write a piece about the good moments from Test cricket, another bomb drops. If the latest allegations are believed then some West Indies cricketers are allegedly implicated in fixing too. If these rumours surface and the players I suspect might be [...]
