Fresh claims about Pakistan’s cricket team by Mazhar Majeed appear in a new video
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed was aired on a local TV Channel.
Clad in a blue shirt Mazhar is sitting in his room and talking to an undercover reporter, the bookie tells him that he has seven out of the 11 players playing for Pakistan working for him.
He is asked by the undercover reporter, "What's the latest situation?", Majeed replies, "I'll tell you who we've got then. We've got Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Wahab Riaz ... that's six, yeah?
Imran Farhat ... that's seven out of 11 players".
Majeed, who players claim was their agent and helped them secure lucrative sponsorships then gives details about why he chose certain players and why certain players were not interested in working with him.
He further explains how certain players are good for certain acts and how he targets younger players in particular.
"It's long-term thinking. These boys are going to be around years and I've got the best boys", Senior players such as Younis Khan, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482, Abdul Razzaq and Saeed Ajmal, he says, do not interest him because they only have a few
years left. Ajmal, he says, is "too religious".
It is believed that the footage was shown during the hearing against the suspension of Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt in Dubai last month.
The lawyers of these players were handed over the evidence and the lawyers apparently leaked the videos to a leading TV channel in Pakistan.
There move is being questioned by legal experts, who believe that such acts are going to make life further difficult for their clients, and the ICC would take this into consideration when it announces a verdict over their alleged involvement
in the spot fixing scandal that rocked the World of cricket in August this year.
The scandal broke during the fourth and final Test match between England and Pakistan at the hallowed turf of Lords.
The two players along with fast bowler Mohammad Asif were caught in a no-ball fixing controversy where their agent Mazhar Majeed allegedly fixed no balls on day one and two of the Test.
The two bowlers delivered no balls as per the claims by Mazhar Majeed, who was filmed fixing the balls, in return of a large sum of money that he received at his residence in London.
The three players were subsequently suspended by the ICC after the Pakistan Cricket Board vowed to back them.
There was an eruption of statements from all quarters and eventually the PCB gave in to the pressure exerted by the governing body of the game and sidelined the players from domestic cricket, besides suspending their central contracts.
PCB has received criticism from all quarters over their act of sidelining the players as legal experts claim that there is no substantial evidence that can thwart the careers of these players and sideline them from international cricket
in the longer run.
However, with the appearance of the latest video, which was probably shot around August at the time the scandal broke out the ICC and PCB find itself in a fix.
At the same time it is pertinent to add here that the duo of Umar Akmal and Wahab Riaz, who have been named by Mazhar Majeed are still playing for Pakistan, Imran Farhat has been axed after a run of poor performances since the tour
of England.
The ICC has conveyed to PCB that they should not be selecting Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik and Danesh Kaneria as the three are also under the scanner.
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