Posts Tagged "Salman Butt"

Sport tugs at the heart in a way no other activity can. Sport, in its intact original form, is unscripted. Athletes win and lose, they laugh and they cry, but they exert themselves at all times.

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After years as the butt of the cricketing world’s jokes, and after all the false hopes, England had reached number one.

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Players’ union chief Tim May and former Australian Test all-rounder Andrew Symonds have warned world cricket that its corruption problems are far from over.

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Justice Jeremy Cooke didn’t do international cricket any favours when he handed down custodial sentences in a London court yesterday to three Pakistan Test players and a Pakistan agent. His parting comment was time in the slammer could be halved with good behaviour.

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Who doesn’t love a fake? Hilarity and consternation this week, when Worcestershire’s oh-so-brief county cricket signing Adrian Shankar turned out as reliable as a sponge-cake submarine.

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The International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption tribunal has handed down lengthy suspensions to the three Pakistan players implicated in the spot-fixing scandal which rocked international cricket last year.

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Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, together with their agent, have been charged with corruption offences, England’s prosecution service said on Friday.

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When the News of the World’s no-ball scandal broke, Australian media couldn’t get enough. Now with the Ashes looming, the events of recent days have gained far less attention. But make no mistake, they are far more disturbing and sinister than anything Salman Butt could have cooked up.

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Former Pakistan cricketers and officials voiced mixed reactions on Sunday after the ICC rejected the appeals of Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer against suspensions over spot-fixing claims.

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Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer appeared before an International Cricket Council code of conduct commissioner on Saturday for a hearing into their suspension on charges of spot fixing.

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An ABC documentary has claimed the International Cricket Council was aware that alleged matchfixer Mazhar Majeed was a suspect person before Pakistan’s controversial tour of Australia last summer, but failed to inform Cricket Australia.

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Pakistan’s scandal-tainted cricketers are the subject of a new corruption probe after suspected irregularities in the third one-day international with England, officials confirmed Saturday.

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Three Pakistan cricketers have sent responses to the game’s governing body over their provisional suspension in a spot-fixing scandal, a legal adviser said.

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In Part One of this article, we looked at Australia’s batting and Akmal’s fumbles in the third innings of the Sydney Test, and dug up a few previously overlooked details that shed new light on the matter.

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Stuart Broad said on Monday that he had no sympathy for the Pakistan players engulfed in a ‘spot-fixing’ row that has sent shockwaves through the world of cricket.

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Suspended Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Aamer may be in line for a more lenient corruption penalty than his older teammates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif.

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Ok. Time to snap on the rubber gloves and get a little CSI: Sydney (Cricket Suspicions Investigation). By now the spot-fixing case is open-and-shut. Crooked agent Mazhar Majeed correctly predicted the timing of three no-balls by Mohammads Amir and Asif in their recent Test at Lords.

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The head of the International Cricket Council has called the fixing allegations against three suspended Pakistan players the most serious case of corruption to hit the sport since South Africa captain Hansie Cronje was banned for life 10 years ago.

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Like ‘hero’, the word ‘tragedy’ is thrown around all too easily in modern sportswriting. But if, as seems likely, the damning allegations against several Pakistan cricketers prove to be true, it will be a genuine tragedy for their nation and the sport as a whole.

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Pakistan captain Salman Butt has refused to answer allegations that his team deliberately lost the dramatic SCG Test against Australia in January.

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