pakistan match fixing

Conspiracy theories start, Aamer’s brother says he’s innocent

September 1, 2010

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 [...]

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Guess who is on the Lords’ Honors Board?

August 31, 2010
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Since the days of G.E. Palmer, E. Peate and G. Ulyett in 1884, any bowler who took a five wicket haul on the hallowed turf at the Lords Cricket Ground in London got himself a mention on the Honours Board. The practice has been continued even to this day and being on the honours board [...]

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Michael Holding crying on Sky talking about Amir

August 31, 2010

Michael Holding crying – Freecricket.TV

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Treason, bans, Effigy [picture]

August 31, 2010

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: [...]

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A bowler’s girl with a broken heart

August 30, 2010

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, [...]

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The Fallen Hero: Mohammed Amir [pics]

August 30, 2010

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 [...]

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Making as all look like tits

August 30, 2010

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 [...]

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Match Fixing Allegation – a few tweets

August 29, 2010

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 [...]

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Statement from Pakpassion.net

August 29, 2010

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 [...]

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Alleged match-fixing allegations rock Pakistan

August 29, 2010

News of the World are reporting that Pakistan have been involved in match-fixing. Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif delivered three blatant no-balls to order, apparently and this just the tip of the iceberg, apparently. The story is breaking all over the news, this right after I complimented Test cricket so much. Hell, I even complimented [...]

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