http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Waqar-Younis-Maitla-c96193 urges an end to talks of match-fixing
The Pakistan Coach Waqar Younis has urged the world to stop talking about match-fixing and spot-fixing taking place during the ongoing ICC World Cup 2011, this year being hosted by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
While talking to journalists in a press conference the former king of reverse swing said, “Let’s not talk about it. I think the games have been pretty fair, the entire tournament has been pretty clean, if you ask me. The teams who are better have won games
and I think it’s pretty clean. People talk about these things because nowadays it is on. I’m glad Pakistan is not in it, so good for us.”
His comments have come after a state owned Sri Lankan Television named Independent Television Network (ITN) accused http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755
in Saturday’s game at the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The hosts lost the game by 11 runs.
The network revealed that a businessman had placed a bet worth $18,000 on Pakistan’s victory. These allegations were levelled in a Sinhala language programme called ‘Wimasuma’ (Research).
Mahinda Abeysundara, the editor of a Sinhala newspaper Dinamina (The Sun), insisted that Jayawardene and Samaraweera gave away their wickets which caused the national team to crumble while chasing a total of 277 runs.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), however reacted strongly to these claims and made it clear that the network had not right to make false allegations against the players who have been serving their country in the best possible manner. A statement by the SLC on the
recent allegations said, “http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 Cricket strongly condemns the bona fides of this anchor who hosted this programme carrying a story that is baseless and thereby demoralising our players during the on-going World Cup.” It was also revealed that Jayawardene
was considering legal action against the channel.
Another fixing allegation in this World Cup included the Australians, as a news piece in an Indian newspaper revealed that the International Cricket Council (ICC) had investigated Australia’s nervy start against minnows where the flamboyant Aussie openers
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) to look into the matter.
It was reported in the newspaper that openers had been quizzed by the ACSU. However, these claims were laughed off by Haddin who clarified that he had not been contacted by anyone from the ACSU. He reiterated that spot-fixing was not the reason behind their
slow start.
Fixing has become a menace for the game of cricket ever since last year, when three Pakistani players, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Asif-c1993 were accused to being involved in spot-fixing during Pakistan’s tour of England. The players were charged
for bowling deliberate no-balls during the Lord’s Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 after taking bribes from a local bookie.
The trio was found guilty in ICC’s Anti-corruption tribunal hearing and were banned from the sport. Butt was awarded a 10 year penalty, Asif seven years and Amir a five year ban. The players can now no longer take part in any international or national cricketing
event sanctioned by the ICC or its member cricket boards.
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