Cricket Australia ashamed of Match Fixing Against Pakistan

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    The move comes as ABC TV's Four Corners program airs new revelations that world cricket's governing body failed to inform Cricket Australia of its concerns about a London agent, who was later filmed boasting about fixing international matches.

    The sports agent, Mazhar Majeed, was in Australia during the Pakistan tour early this year. He was later secretly recorded by Britain's News of the World claiming to have fixed the Sydney Test in early January.

    Betfair Australasia chief executive Andrew Twaits says the threat posed by gambling-related corruption is the same, if not bigger, than the threat of doping in sport "simply because not enough attention has been paid to it".

    "I think there has to be some legislative action on the part of the Federal Government," Mr Twaits said.

    "Australia needs ... specific legislation that's a combination of anti-cheating legislation that you have in the UK, and almost insider trading legislation that you have in the stock markets here."

    Federal Sports Minister Mark Arbib is in discussions with Australia's peak sporting bodies, as well as his international counterparts, to determine the best way to combat match-fixing in sport, a spokesperson said.

    Mr Arbib also raised match-fixing at a Commonwealth Sports Ministers meeting in Delhi earlier this month.

    As cricket reels from its latest cheating crisis, Four Corners goes to Pakistan, India and Dubai where reporter Marian Wilkinson tests what cricket's leaders are doing to protect the integrity of the game and restore public confidence.

    Four Corners reveals the International Cricket Council (ICC) had concerns about Majeed when he was in Australia during the Pakistan tour, months before he was secretly filmed in a News of the World sting counting piles of cash he received for allegedly manipulating an England-Pakistan Test.

    But the ICC claims it was not in a position to pass any information on to Cricket Australia before the Pakistan tour.

    "These are leads that we have to follow through and be quite confident before we make allegations, and it was the subject of an ongoing investigation," chief executive Haroon Lorgat told Four Corners.

    "We were not satisfied of the extent of his activities and we needed to be quite confident before we levelled any accusations."

    Four Corners tonight airs the secretly recorded News of the World tapes, including one in which Majeed brags about making a $1 million-plus betting windfall by manipulating the Sydney Test, which Pakistan lost in a dramatic collapse after being in a seemingly unassailable position.

    Despite Majeed's claims the ICC's Haroon Lorgat makes it clear that there is no specific investigation into the Sydney Test for lack of evidence.

    But Majeed is under investigation by Scotland Yard after he told an undercover journalist in August that he could arrange for no balls to be bowled at specific points in a match, which could then be bet on.

    The no balls were then bowled, as specifically predicted, during the Fourth Test between England and Pakistan.

    Three Pakistani players - former captain Salman Butt, and star bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif - are also under investigation by Scotland Yard. They have been suspended and charged by the ICC under its anti-corruption code and hearings will be held in Qatar on October 30 and 31.

    Read More at : http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/25/3046896.htm
     
    Ojasvi Bhargava, Nov 8, 2010 IP
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    pakistan cricketer are patriotic they cant do that in that match amir took 6 wickets on that inning
     
    pakcricket2010, Nov 12, 2010 IP
  3. Ojasvi Bhargava

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    what about Kamran Akmal dropping easy catches intentionally and then laughing? dude
     
    Ojasvi Bhargava, Nov 12, 2010 IP