http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed - Cricket News Update
On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 in a last ditch effort to convince the Southwark Crown Court judge to limit his sentence, the prime accused Mazhar Majeed revealed startling details regarding his involvement in spot-fixing.
According to the accused bookie, the idea of “fixing” was first brought up by Pakistan’s now former Test captain Salman Butt in a dinner during the Twenty20 World Cup 2009, in England.
Majeed’s lawyer Mark Milliken-Smith QC said, “Majeed was having dinner with Butt during the Twenty20 World Cup in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. When having dinner Butt raised the subject, out of frustration, that other players were at it and gave examples of ownership of houses
in Pakistan.”
According to the lawyer, Butt assured Majeed that he could even tell when and how few http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 players were already doing spot-fixing and due to this practice the players earned a luxurious livelihood.
Recalling Butt’s conversation with Majeed, the latter’s lawyer also revealed “How can http://www.senore.com/Cricket/XJ-Doherty-c2804 and Y players have these houses when they don't earn the same amount of money according to their (Pakistan Cricket Board) contract."
However, after this conversation nothing serious happened between the bookie and Butt, until January 2010, when Majeed went to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 where Pakistan were playing against the hosts and there once again Butt brought the subject of fixing.
However, this time there was another player with him, who was not named in front of the jury. The discussion took place before the one-day series against the Aussies and investigations have revealed that the matches were not fixed in any way.
According to Majeed’s lawyer, it was then in another meeting between the players and his client during the Asia Cup in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 that Pakistan’s tour of England was chosen for fixing.
The tour ultimately turned out to be Achilles heel for the spot-fixers as an undercover journalist from now the defunct “News of the World” carried out a sting operation exposing the involvement of three Pakistan players and Majeed in taking bribes to bowl
deliberate no-balls during the Lord's Test against England.
The three players (Butt, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) investigation found them guilty of spot-fixing.
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