Off the back of two outstanding match winning knocks by Jonathon Trott and Stuart Broad, in a record batting partnership, much of the Test’s finest cricketing achievements appear now just a hazy memory with the News of the World investigative story suggesting fixer Mazhar Majeed made a £140,000 pound pact with the tabloid to organise match fixing involving the Pakistan cricket team. With the evidence of three, precisely timed ‘no balls’ in direct correlation to what was uncovered in the newspaper’s secret video, it brings a game full of gentlemanly conduct normally of the highest order into a state of shock.
In a list featuring a long line of rumours concerning Pakistani betting, surfacing in Australia earlier this year, the Test Series which England won 3-1 will be discarded to the memory bank. In a tumultuous day for the cricketing world, and with a full Metropolitan Police, among the various cricketing councils investigations under way the guilty parties involved need to be punished sooner rather than later.
With cricket exposed to an endless undercover betting network trying to bring the game into disrepute and as international players abroad are constantly being ‘tapped’ up but to use a phrase for their services, it is a situation which cannot just be brushed under the carpet quickly.
Pakistani paceman, Mohammed Amir (allegedly involved in 'no ball' scam) picks up Pakistan’s Man of the Series gong.
It is a fearful prospect that a special bowling prodigy such as Mohammed Amir (who has allegedly been caught up in the futile happenings) is being brainwashed by criminals trying to ruin one of sports special spectacles, but even more so now the game, loved by many. Now cricket is under the microscope if it is a real game, which people pay hundreds of pounds to be entertained by.
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