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Int’l Cricket Scandal Could Overshadow Leisure-Pudong “Duckworth” Travesty
Now even the U.S. is following the Pakistan match fixing scandal: This from The Atlantic:
This week at Lord’s, England won an amazing come-from-behind victory over Pakistan. But the game now is likely to be overshadowed forever by one of the greatest scandals to ever hit international cricket.
The British newspaper News of the World alleged that in a sting operation, they paid Pakistani middleman Mazhar Majeed 150,000 pounds ($230,000) to collude with Pakistani players and deliberately fix the match, for the benefit of gambling syndicates. Majeed was arrested by police and released on bail pending further investigation. The police have also spoken to several Pakistani players. At this stage, the claims are unproven allegations. But the secretly taped video of Majeed looks, on the face of it, pretty damning.
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Proof that the Yanks know nothing! Come from behind? England won by an innings!!! They never were behind!
Haha, didn't catch that, have left a comment on the original article citing this fact
well now we know y england won by an innings!
3 no balls = an innings and 225 runs?
At 42-5 and 102-7 in the 1st innings Pak were probably ahead in most people's books.
Having followed the series (and adhering to the theory of being innocent until proven guilty), I think 42-5 was a pretty competitive score.
We's was robbed