{"id":3987,"date":"2010-09-01T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2010-09-01T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:43:48","slug":"intl-cricket-scandal-could-overshadow-leisure-pudong-duckworth-travesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/intl-cricket-scandal-could-overshadow-leisure-pudong-duckworth-travesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Int&#8217;l Cricket Scandal Could Overshadow Leisure-Pudong &#8220;Duckworth&#8221; Travesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now even the U.S. is following the Pakistan match fixing scandal: This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2010\/08\/say-it-aint-so-the-historic-scandal-rocking-world-cricket\/62301\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>This week at Lord&#8217;s, England won <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">an amazing come-from-behind  victory<\/span> over Pakistan. But the game now is likely to be overshadowed  forever by one of the greatest scandals to ever hit international  cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The British newspaper <em>News of the World<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsoftheworld.co.uk\/news\/924349\/Cricket-in-the-dock-as-we-expose-betting-scandal-England-Pakistan-Test.html\">alleged<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsoftheworld.co.uk\/news\/924349\/Cricket-in-the-dock-as-we-expose-match-fixing-scandal-England-Pakistan-Test.html\">secretly taped video<\/a> of Majeed looks, on the face of it, pretty damning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now even the U.S. is following the Pakistan match fixing scandal: This from The Atlantic: This week at Lord&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}