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 an international conspiracy to defame our cricket team and country,” said Mohammad Ijaz, the elder brother of Amir told ANI. [...]

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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: The Daily Mail) Other reports suggest that there are other countries involved too. A bookie revealed that the teams that [...]

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 have an upcoming tour against New Zealand. Not sure about that, yet. CSA CEO Gerald Majola said: “The tour of [...]

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 involved are, I think I might need to take a week’s worth of sympathy leave and disappear into the mountains. [...]

I posed the question on Twitter: “If cricket is religion and Sachin is God, does that make the alleged fixers the Devil and the syndicates demons?” The answer was almost unanimous: yes, burn them. Yes, we all feel cheated and yes, we were all stupid to think that this wasn’t going on in our precious, sacred game but it seems the majority of us are taking the ‘drown them and see if they float’ approach. [...]

The saddest and most heart-breaking part of this whole tragedy, for me, is the fact that this beautiful, bright and talented young boy could have no future anymore, should he be found guilty. Some sources believe that Shahid Afridi was protecting him and, as soon as he left, he had nobody to turn to and he was bullied into the alleged spot-fixing. I look at the pictures below and my heart breaks, every single time, [...]

Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few hours, you are well aware of what’s going on in the cricket world. It has been rocked to its core by match-fixing allegations involving Pakistan. I had a chat with Poshin from Poshin’s World about just how stupid we feel. Below is an e-mail I sent on Friday to a couple of mates who work for a cricket website. This after Mohammed Aamer bowled so [...]

Both @mspr1nt and I have been fuming at the events unfolding over the last 24 hours. Sources tell us that Pakistan may be banned from International Cricket for a long time if the said allegations are proven right. @mspr1nt has been active on twitter today trying to differentiate between fact and sensationalism. A lot of murky details are disgusting to say the least. I have collected a few of her tweets throughout the day in [...]

As some of you might know, Cricinfo have been speculating that the Pakistani players have known the man who was arrested for allegedly being  involved in spot-fixing  for quite some time. I received this email from Pakpassion.net.  I don’t want to write anything else about the situation at the moment but here is Pakpassion’s side of the story. Bumble also Tweeted that some sources claim players were threatened with kidnapping of their families if they [...]