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New Delhi: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday said that cricket has been brought to “disrepute” by the ‘spot-fixing’ scandal and the guilty should be handed harsh punishment as such incidents tend to also paint other players in bad light. “It’s sad. Investigations are going on. Something like this, match fixing or spot fixing, [...]
British tabloid News of the World revealed on Sunday the entire story of how the sting was done to nab matchfixers. The report begins: “It was back in January that I first received the phone call that would start my investigation. A former member of the Pakistan cricket management team told me the England v [...]
Pakistani cricketer Yasir Hameed who played in the rigged Lord’s Test has sensationally confirmed that there were cheats in his team, The London tabloid News of the World reports. Opening batsman Yasir Hameed claimed that bent teammates were fixing “almost every match”. And he provided a devastating insight into the shady world of betting scams, [...]
London: Mired in a spot-fixing scam, the Pakistani trio of Salman Butt, Mohammed Aamir and Mohammed Asif have told the investigators that they took money from alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed but denied any wrongdoing. The suspended trio, being grilled by Scotland Yard here, claimed the money they took from Majeed was on account of sponsorship [...]
Singers and musicians in Bollywood have come out openly against the Commonwealth Games song composed by well known music director A R Rahman, says a media report. It took six months and Rs 5 crore to make the song, but AR Rahman’s track is not exactly ‘Waka Waka’ or ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’, people say . [...]
The London tabloid The Sun on Friday frontpaged a story saying that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was linked to matchfixing by Pakistani cricketers. The newspaper said, billionaire crime boss Dawood Ibrahim had ties with al-Qaeda. Fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, 54, is said to head a rigging network that connects Britain to the Middle East, India and [...]
London : Scotland Yard officers questioned former Pakistani team captain Salman Butt on Friday over how marked notes were discovered in police searches of his hotel room and his locker at Lord’s, reports The Daily Mail. The money is believed to have been part of £ 150,000 ( Rs 1.07 crore) handed over in cash [...]
Lahore/Karachi: At least 28 people were killed and over 180 injured on Wednesday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in back-to-back attacks targetting Shia march in Lahore, even as gunmen opened fire at a procession in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi wounding seven. The first blast, caused by a low intensity explosive device, went off near [...]
The last of the Mumbai-based bookies cleared their ‘vallan’ or payments by midnight thanks mostly to the fear of Dawood Ibrahim’s cronies, says a Mid Day report. Wads of notes were wrapped in old newspapers and dispatched through errand boys to the offices of bookmakers, who won the bets. Though there was an initial stand-off [...]
ਲੰਡਨ, ਬਰਤਾਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਇਕ ਅਖਬਾਰ ਨੇ ਇੰਗਲੈਂਡ ਅਤੇ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਵਿਚਾਲੇ ਖੇਡੇ ਜਾ ਰਹੇ ਲਾਰਡਜ਼ ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟ ਟੈਸਟ ਵਿਚ ਮੈਚ ਫਿਕਸਿੰਗ ਦਾ ਸਨਸਨੀਖੇਜ਼ ਖੁਲਾਸਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ। ਅਖਬਾਰ ਦਾ ਦਾਅਵਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਇਸ ਮੈਚ ਵਿਚ ਕਰੋੜਾਂ ਰੁਪਏ ਬਦਲੇ ਨੋ ਬਾਲ ਫਿਕਸ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ ਸੀ। ਅਖਬਾਰ ਦੀ ਰਿਪੋਰਟ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ ਦੇ ਤੇਜ਼ ਗੇਂਦਬਾਜ਼ ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਆਮਿਰ ਅਤੇ ਮੁਹੰਮਦ ਆਸਿਫ ਨੇ [...]
