Spot-fixing/Match-fixing scandal

[fawwaxs]

Ex-girlfriend says Asif a 'serial fixer'

Mohammad Asif's ex-girl friend has launched a scathing attack at the bowler and accused him of being directly involved in match-fixing.



As a panelist on a news channel, Asif's former girl friend Veena Malik accused the fast bowler of being 'criminal minded' and a 'serial match-fixer.'



Here's what she had to say:



-Asif reportedly told her that Pakistan will not win a series until 2010

-She has accused Asif of bribing an Indian doctor during his doping trial at the Indian Premier League

-He is supposed to have told Mohammad Amir "I have had more court cases than your age (18)"

-He reportedly told Veena Malik: "Stop praying....we will not win a single match during the tour to Australia."



Asif's alleged dealings:



"He went to Bangkok to meet some bookmakers within a notice of 24 hours. This is when we were in a relationship. The conversation on the phone before the tour of Australia was specifically about fixing."



-Kalim Imran supposedly provided Asif with nandrolone injections. Malik claims she had asked what had happened to Asif's performance to which Asif replied, "That wasn't me, that was the nandrolone."



-Indian bookie's incoming text: Asif used to send texts to Dhiraj Dixit from his servant's numbers.

Conversation: Dhiraj says: "I can give you 40,000 dollars for this deal. Asif says: "No I want 200,000 dollars." Dhiraj says: I would like some more team members for this deal."



She adds: "After this Asif disappeared for a day. After some checks I found out he had gone to Bangkok and returned within 24 hours. Upon returning and finding out that I had discovered something, Asif became a little shady and we started having fights."



-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."



Veena Malik, a former model and TV host, has said she is willing to part of any hearing related to match-fixing and will surely testify.

 

[fawwaxs]

Guilty must face tough punishment: Imran Khan

KARACHI: Pakistan’s former cricket captain Imran Khan called for exemplary punishment to be given to any player found guilty of spot fixing during the tour of England.



“I think there is a need to send out a message to youngsters...that crime does not pay,” Imran told Geo News channel on Sunday.



“I myself have come to know about these allegations against our players from the media. I hope they are not true but if any player is found guilty he should be made an example for future generations of Pakistani cricketers.”



British police said on Saturday they had arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers.



The arrest followed a newspaper report that Pakistan players had been bribed to fix incidents in the fourth test against England, which ended in defeat for the Pakistanis at Lord’s on Sunday.

 

[Super Falcon]

welll dont know she is right or wrong everyone want to take their revange from struggling team anyway if it is the case than pcb is also involved in it too

 

[fawwaxs]

we have to wait for the result, let the investigation be done.

 

[fawwaxs]

Our players are innocent till they are proven guilty and we should support them.

 

[SpArK]

Most damning incidents of match-fixing in past 15 years


1994: Aussies ShaneWarne, Tim May and Mark Waugh allege that Pak captain Salim Malik approachedthem and asked them to bowl badly and lose the Karachi Test.

1996: Indian cricketadministrator Sunil Dev alleges some Indian players were indulging in matchfixing and demands a judicial enquiry.

1997: ManojPrabhakar accuses a fellow Team India player of offering him Rs 25 lakh to throwa match in Lanka in 1994. BCCI appoints a commission to look into theallegation.

1998: Pakistanbowler Ata-ur-Rahman accuses Wasim Akram of offering him Rs 3 lakh to bowl badlyagainst New Zealand. Akram resigns as captain.

1998: Rashid Latifaccused Akram, Malik, Inzamam and Ijaz Ahmed of fixing matches.

1998: Warne &Mark Waugh confess that they had been passing on weather and pitch informationto an Indian bookie during the Singer Cup in Sri Lanka in 1994. Both are finedby the Oz board.

April 7, 2000: Delhipolice charge SA captain Hansie Cronje with fixing his team's ODI series againstIndia in March for money. Herschelle Gibbs, Pieter Strydom and Nicky Boje alsofall in trouble.

April 16, 2000: Itemerges that SA nearly accepted a $250,000 to lose an ODI against India inMumbai in 1996.

May 24, 2000: Prabhakar claims it was Kapil Dev who asked him to under-perform in a gameagainst Pak in Sri Lanka in 1994.

May 24, 2000: Pak'sone-man judicial commission finds former captain Malik and medium-pacerAta-ur-Rehman guilty of fixing matches and recommends life bans for the two.Also says Akram and Mushtaq Ahmed should not be allowed to captain Pakistan inthe future.

June 8, 2000: Gibbsconfesses he had accepted an offer from his former captain to make less than 20runs in an ODI in India earlier in the year in exchange for $15,000.

June 12, 2000: SAcricket chief Ali Bacher says that he had been told by former PCB CEO Majid Khanthat two World Cup matches in 1999, involving Pak, against India and Bangladesh were fixed.

June 15, 2000: Cronje confesses to taking about $100,000 in bribes from gamblers since 1996,but he claims that he had never thrown or fixed a match. He also announces hisretirement from cricket.

July 20, 2000: IT officials raid the homes of top cricket players and officials across thecountry, including those of then national coach Kapil Dev, former playersAzharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Nikhil Chopra.

October 11, 2000: Cronje banned for life.

November 27, 2000: Azharuddin is found guilty of match-fixing, while Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar,Ajay Sharma and former Indian team physio Ali Irani are found guilty of havinglinks with bookies.

December 5, 2000: Life ban slapped on Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma.

August 17, 2004: Kenya's former captain, Maurice Odumbe, is banned for five years after beingfound guilty of receiving money from bookmakers on several occasions.

November 7, 2004: NZcaptain Stephen Fleming claims he was offered $370,000 by an Indian sportspromoter during the 1999 World Cup to join a match-fixing syndicate.

May 13, 2008: MarlonSamuels is banned for two years for allegedly passing on match-relatedinformation to an Indian bookie during West Indies' one-day series in India in2007.

May 15, 2010: Essexplayers Danish Kaneria and Mervyn Westfield are arrested following aninvestigation into betting irregularities but are not charged.

 

[DeathGod]

A humourous blog

Thodi Si Jo Chori Ki Hai

So Mohammed Amir and Mohammed Asif bowl no-balls on demand and Salman Butt, as the captain, ***** them a few buts. Big deal. I don’t get what the uproar is all about honestly. If you have a white tiger in your zoo, you don’t expect it to smell of fresh roses– now do you? Then why for crying out loud do you expect players of a country that siphons off relief money, a country whose entire team has been shown to be corrupt by Justice Qauyyum, where all the players (save those at the end of their careers and hence worthless) proven to be crooks by their own legal system were let go with minor raps on the knuckles, to be as honest as Manoj Kumar? Of course they are as bent as the proverbial fiddler’s elbow (or as they say in Pakistan as bent as Shoaib Akthar’s arm at moment of delivery) and we all love them for it. So I say well-done Amir-Asif for reminding us once again as to the gentle delights that Pakistan brings to the world of cricket.

What? You say they have cheated? I don’t think anyone can claim to have been defrauded here unless that person is Zardari (last in the news for not paying the government of Turkey USD 8000 for four female “guides” supplied to him for “educational” purpose). He is the only one who has been hard-done by, having been deprived of his ten-per-cent per-transaction cut. And he has realized that too, asking for a detailed probe into the whole incident [Link] showing the same alacrity and seriousness with which he investigated the 26/11 attacks.

Spot-fixing is of course a term that many people are still not familiar with. A very simple way to explain it to children of the 80s would be to think of Gold Spot where the “gold” is actually real. In spot betting, rather than betting on the results of entire matches, people bet on the results of certain events—like what religion will Mohammed Younus belong to today, what type of organism is growing in Akthar’s nether regions, whether Afridi will bite the ball in the morning or in post-tea session or how many rules of English grammer would Inzamam Ul Haq break in his post-match speech or which room would the coach’s dead body be found in or when in the evening would Younis Khan announce his retirement or when at night would Shoaib Malik….well you get the picture. Now unscrupulous bookies (there is but one kind) try to rip off people by fixing these events beforehand by colluding with players.

In this case, as the headlines “Three Balls That Shook The World” cry out, a bookie was caught fixing, beyond a room for doubt, no-balls being bowled by Mohammed Amir and Mohammed Asif (Danish Kaneria [also known in some quarters as the Danish cartoon] had been caught spot-fixing a few months ago in England). What of course made me delighted was the respect with which the bookie spoke to one of the world’s most excited cricketers and how, like a Pakistani lion, he roared loudly in response.

Majeed then explained that the third no-ball would come in the first over that teen wonder boy Amir got to deliver to an England right-hander, after one of the opening two left-handers had been dismissed.

Just to convince us Amir was onside Majeed telephoned the young star at his hotel. “Are you sleeping f***er?” he asked crudely. Amir confirmed that’s what he was trying to do.

“Ok, sleep,” said Majeed. “We’ve spoken about everything before anyway. Ok, don’t mind. You sleep’

Now people here know how much I am in awe of Mohammed Asif. He is the kind of Pakistani cricketer I grew up admiring—- supremely talented on the field and even more talented off it, storing more drugs in his travel bag than a Pfizer godown and playing models like Veena Malik (She has spilled the beans on her ex-dilrooba here) like a Veena (he evidently took money from her and didnt return it). In short, total stud. Not like our wannabes like Sreesanth and Munaf Darling, who despite their best attempts, will never even come close to Asif in any respect—– pace, swing or cut.

Of late though, I had taken a keen interest in the prodigious Mohammed Amir. At age 18, he shows every potential to be one of the world’s leading pace-bowlers. With this incident, he has shown conclusively that he is a chip off the old Pakistani block, someone who even at such a tender age, has mastered the dual art of slipping deliveries through batsman’s defenses and currency notes inside his pocket, with the kind of flair that is oh so typically Pakistan.

You know what would shock me though? If the Pakistani media does not blame this on the “Hinduyon ki zehniyat” and the Jewish-Hindu conspiracy, or the Pakistani board does not do a few eye-wash slaps on Salman’s Butt and then business is resumed as normal or if Asif and Amir are not made to contribute to the Pakistani Prime Minister’s Relief Fund or if Javed Miandad (whose samdhiji is the Bill Gates of betting) does not point fingers at India regarding match-fixing or if the Kolkata Knight Riders does not keep wringing their hands as to why the IPL, a tournament of great probity and transparency, needs the Pakistanis to bring in their expertise and skill to the league.

But till that happens, I am fine. I am happy. And all is right with the world.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

This is what happed

Bookies Gang , was betting , they bet in 40-50 million dollars on Pakistan winnning , and they were giving odds of 40:1 to anyone who would go with England to win , so some ppl bet that England would win.

And oddly England won, so now bookies lost 100 million+

Seeing that they are going to get bankrupt , they come up with this interesting story that Pakistani team was cheating

See its a beautiful excuse to cancel the match ....that would mean the match will be 'no contest' and the bookies will not lose 100+ millions.

All they had to do was , come up with side stories, they had a internal person get some pictures taken with players , players always stop by and take pictures with them does not mean they know them or deal with them personally , ppl ask to take pictrues in hotel lobbies all the time

Becasue they could not really directly claim Pakistani batting collapsed (we know it happens all the time) they had to find a new excuse the noball issue

Well sadly Pakistan is teh worse team in Noballs and wides , so just 2-3 no balls is actually a great performance in Test match ?

We all wish that we only give 2-3 no balls


ALL CASINOS, BOOKIES CRY foul , and cheating when they LOSE big money !!!


Pakistan was 500% favourite to win at 107-7 england , and obviously bookies were offering GREAT odds and probbly alot of PPL bet on england and now bookies are loosing so they are hoping not to pay

As for Ms Veena Malik , that is just case of hurt women trying to 'get even' AURAT ka inteqaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

 

[SpArK]

This is what happed

Bookies Gang , was betting , they bet in 40-50 million dollars on Pakistan winnning , and they were giving odds of 40:1 to anyone who would go with England to win , so some ppl bet that England would win.

And oddly England won, so now bookies lost 100 million+

Seeing that they are going to get bankrupt , they come up with this interesting story that Pakistani team was cheating

See its a beautiful excuse to cancel the match ....that would mean the match will be 'no contest' and the bookies will not lose 100+ millions.

All they had to do was , come up with side stories, they had a internal person get some pictures taken with players , players always stop by and take pictures with them does not mean they know them or deal with them personally , ppl ask to take pictrues in hotel lobbies all the time

Becasue they could not really directly claim Pakistani batting collapsed (we know it happens all the time) they had to find a new excuse the noball issue

Well sadly Pakistan is teh worse team in Noballs and wides , so just 2-3 no balls is actually a great performance in Test match ?

We all wish that we only give 2-3 no balls

what is the gain for bookies by this scandal??
will they get their money back???

Its the stupid theory i have ever heard.!!!

 

[SpArK]

Cash recovered from Pakistani players' hotel rooms: Reports


Published: Monday, Aug 30, 2010, 8:41 IST | Updated: Monday, Aug 30, 2010, 10:39 IST
Place: London | Agency: PTI


Cash exceeding their daily allowance was recovered from the hotel rooms of the Pakistani cricketers implicated in the "spot fixing" scandal during a raid conducted by the Scotland Yard in London.

"Mr (Yawar) Saeed received a phone call at the team's hotel in Swiss Cottage, north London, at about 7.30pm telling him that two police officers were waiting to see him. Police spent two hours searching rooms, including that of Mr Butt and several players, before confiscating the phones of the captain and Aamer and Asif," a report in the The Independent said.

"Officers also found large numbers of bank notes in the rooms of unnamed players which exceeded the daily maintenance payment made to the cricketers by their employers. It is not known if these bank notes relate to the allegations," it said.

The Scotland Yard detectives yesterday visited the Pakistan dressing room immediately after the third day's play in the fourth Test against England to question the players after the sting operation exposed 'spot-fixing' and the alleged nexus between the players and bookies.

The police also questioned Mazhar Majeed, a 35-year-old agent, about allegations that he accepted £150,000 in cash from undercover News of the World reporters posing asa gambling syndicate. He was bailed out without any charge last night.

Detectives took statements from skipper Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif, and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal after Majeed was seen on film to give precise details of when three "no-balls" would be delivered by Aamer and Asif during the Test match at Lord's that ended yesterday.

 

[Awesome]

This is what happed

Bookies Gang , was betting , they bet in 40-50 million dollars on Pakistan winnning , and they were giving odds of 40:1 to anyone who would go with England to win , so some ppl bet that England would win.

And oddly England won, so now bookies lost 100 million+

Seeing that they are going to get bankrupt , they come up with this interesting story that Pakistani team was cheating

See its a beautiful excuse to cancel the match ....that would mean the match will be 'no contest' and the bookies will not lose 100+ millions.

All they had to do was , come up with side stories, they had a internal person get some pictures taken with players , players always stop by and take pictures with them does not mean they know them or deal with them personally , ppl ask to take pictrues in hotel lobbies all the time

Becasue they could not really directly claim Pakistani batting collapsed (we know it happens all the time) they had to find a new excuse the noball issue

Well sadly Pakistan is teh worse team in Noballs and wides , so just 2-3 no balls is actually a great performance in Test match ?

We all wish that we only give 2-3 no balls


ALL CASINOS, BOOKIES CRY foul , and cheating when they LOSE big money !!!


Pakistan was 500% favourite to win at 107-7 england , and obviously bookies were offering GREAT odds and probbly alot of PPL bet on england and now bookies are loosing so they are hoping not to pay

As for Ms Veena Malik , that is just case of hurt women trying to 'get even' AURAT ka inteqaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

How did they make Mazhar Majeed accept money?

How did they make Amir and Asif bowl no balls at the specified moments?

 

[AliFarooq]

 

[WAQAS119]

Cash recovered from Pakistani players' hotel rooms: Reports


Published: Monday, Aug 30, 2010, 8:41 IST | Updated: Monday, Aug 30, 2010, 10:39 IST
Place: London | Agency: PTI


Cash exceeding their daily allowance was recovered from the hotel rooms of the Pakistani cricketers implicated in the "spot fixing" scandal during a raid conducted by the Scotland Yard in London.

"Mr (Yawar) Saeed received a phone call at the team's hotel in Swiss Cottage, north London, at about 7.30pm telling him that two police officers were waiting to see him. Police spent two hours searching rooms, including that of Mr Butt and several players, before confiscating the phones of the captain and Aamer and Asif," a report in the The Independent said.

"Officers also found large numbers of bank notes in the rooms of unnamed players which exceeded the daily maintenance payment made to the cricketers by their employers. It is not known if these bank notes relate to the allegations," it said.

The Scotland Yard detectives yesterday visited the Pakistan dressing room immediately after the third day's play in the fourth Test against England to question the players after the sting operation exposed 'spot-fixing' and the alleged nexus between the players and bookies.

The police also questioned Mazhar Majeed, a 35-year-old agent, about allegations that he accepted £150,000 in cash from undercover News of the World reporters posing asa gambling syndicate. He was bailed out without any charge last night.

Detectives took statements from skipper Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif, and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal after Majeed was seen on film to give precise details of when three "no-balls" would be delivered by Aamer and Asif during the Test match at Lord's that ended yesterday.

Don't go on media reports!
In 2007 world cup their were same reports that Pakistani players killed their own coach! And when this was proved non-sense, not even single newspapers or TV channel appologised Pakistani players for playing with their respect.

 

[forcetrip]

This is what happed

Bookies Gang , was betting , they bet in 40-50 million dollars on Pakistan winnning , and they were giving odds of 40:1 to anyone who would go with England to win , so some ppl bet that England would win.

And oddly England won, so now bookies lost 100 million+

Really?? thats what happens in the world of gambling? 40:1 odds? what movie is this? First lets get the facts.

1. The newspaper contacted the police before the match and investigations had started using the video as evidence. That is a fact, no denying it.

2. After fact number 1 if you still think you need fact number 2 then God has given you super strength and perseverance against all facts and proofs with "ignorance is bliss".

 

[AliFarooq]

Its a set up, nothing more.

If they can have hidden cameras, in the room and the car, they can easily take a hidden camera here,

record what they are talking about.

Secondly the video they mention wahab riaz and umer amin, where did they come from??

Thirdly what happened to the 150,000 pounds?, did they just disappear.