Mazhar Majeed says “fast cars and women my weakness”
Mazhar Majeed’s claim to fame is his involvement in the biggest betting scandal of the decade that has rocked international media and sent shudders down the spine of the ICC for it has brought back memories of past incidences of match-fixing to haunt them.
Bookmakers are thought to be extremely powerful people, and some say that they were even responsible for the death of Hansie Cronje who died in a plane crash. Bob Woolmer according to some might have had to suffer the same fate after Pakistan crumbled to an embarrassing defeat against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751 in the 2007 World Cup, where a day later, Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room.
Mazhar Majeed and his links with the Pakistan players were known to everyone since he was the players’ agent and helped many of them get contracts with different companies. However, the ACSU was wary of Mazhar Majeed and his activities. However, they failed to communicate their fears to the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket team, and the News of the World reporter Mazhar Mehmood conducted a sting operation to uncover the shady activities of Mazhar who lives in a 1.8 million pound mansion in England.
Following the reports published by the News of the World, ICC has taken firm action against the many players, even though http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard is still to submit their report on the involvement of the players in the spot-fixing imbroglio, where they were apparently paid to bowl no-balls in the final test at Lords.
Mazhar was arrested following this controversy. However, he was later released on bail. In his most recent interview, the owner of the Croydon Athletic FC has revealed that his secret vices were cars and women. The owner of Blue Sky Developments, admitted to the same newspaper, the News of the World that he apparently had to struggle quite a lot to control his “urges” after he got married in 2002.
“My weakness was women. I was a changed character since wedding Sheliza Manji in 2002 but had to struggle to control my urges. I used to drink and smoke, plus women” he told the Tabloid. “But I’ve been going straight for the last four or five years. I still go to parties because I obviously have to. My best friend owns the biggest modelling agency in Knightsbridge. He holds so many parties and stuff. It’s like, I get invited to restaurants, and openings... the women there were unbelievable.”
Like James Bond, Majeed drives an Aston Martin but unlike novelist Ian Fleming’s famous spy, he owns other special rides, which include a Range Rover and a Jaguar. Talking about his Aston Martin, he said that driving an Aston Martin convertible during the summers meant that women went crazy. According to him, that is the hardest thing to get over.
His misadventures with the Pakistan side might result in a lifetime ban on the Pakistan players and has tarnished the image of Pakistan cricket greatly. But playboy Majeed seem’s to be least interested in that, issuing unscrupulous statements at a time when the cricketing world could see one of the finest talents to have emerged after the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara being banished from the cricketing arena forever.
Records indicate that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 was a registered director of 28 different companies although most of them are no longer functioning. He was fond of organizing massive barbecue parties at his mansion, and the neighbours were very fond of him as well. According to The Guardian, he successfully “cemented his role as the players’ go-to man in the financially lucrative world of sponsorship deals and marketing opportunities.” He in fact became close to them, and due to that exercised a great deal of control on them according to many. It has also come to light that Salman Butt was the brand manager for his football club as well.
Whatever the case may be, it is high time that people like Mazhar control their urge for spot-fixing to help clean cricket from this menacing virus.
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