England Vs Pakistan

[Forest]

Saw SS showing clips of when they played Australia i think and half their players made Flappers look like Buffon! talk about butter fingers.

[SE13]

There is talk of banning the players involved on a permanent basis. I imagine the people arrested will have to testify in Court, and action would be taken from there.

Difficult and dodgy situation.

[IMF]

Ban the entire team forever...

[gzagee]

What's funny about this situation is that although the Pakistan team were trying to lose matches, England struggled to actually beat them...

[Forest]

What's funny about this situation is that although the Pakistan team were trying to lose matches, England struggled to actually beat them...

i thought it was more to it than just losing? thought it was to do with foul balls or something as NOTW were told exactly who and which ball would be a no ball or what ever its called (dont know rules or language about cricket)

[gzagee]

What's funny about this situation is that although the Pakistan team were trying to lose matches, England struggled to actually beat them...

i thought it was more to it than just losing? thought it was to do with foul balls or something as NOTW were told exactly who and which ball would be a no ball or what ever its called (dont know rules or language about cricket)

Wouldn't surprise me if some of the other matches were tampered with. I mean, how many p*ss-easy dropped catches did they commit? In one match I'm sure there were at least 5 easy catches they could've trousered.
And this after they gave the Aussies a real game in the previous test match.

[rogerthornhill]

I'm surprised that there is a betting market on which deliveries will be no-balls. I would have thought that making a substantial bet on, say, the third ball of the eight over would in itself be suspicious. How could you make such a bet without being confident that you have successfully bribed the captain of the fielding team or the bowler, realistically you would need to bribe both. If I was a bookmaker and someone came into my shop and put 5000 pounds on such a proposition I know that I would be extremely suspicious.

[Inchpräctice]

Yeah good point rog.

"I'd like £20k at 230-1 on Amir bowling a no-ball in the 13th over please."

"£20k! Er......ok."

[Fabrestuta]

According to SSN there is rumours that some of the players in question had their families threatened unless they went along with it.

[SE13]

What's funny about this situation is that although the Pakistan team were trying to lose matches, England struggled to actually beat them...

i thought it was more to it than just losing? thought it was to do with foul balls or something as NOTW were told exactly who and which ball would be a no ball or what ever its called (dont know rules or language about cricket)

Bleedin' 'ell, you live close to a test venue and you don't know cricket!?!

Nothing to it really: England > Australia

That's all you need to know.

[whee]

According to SSN there is rumours that some of the players in question had their families threatened unless they went along with it.

Which is why I said it's best to wait and see what the investigation uncovers, before slating these kids.

Think about it, there's some horrible mother f***ers out there, and using threats of violence, could have easily got these 18 year old lads to chuck a few wide for them.

The footballing equivalent would be like betting on the timing of throw-ins. Remember the whole Le Tissier thing? Put a bet on there being a throw-in during the first minute, then attempted to stick the thing straight into touch from kick off. Le Tiss left his punt short though, and spent 30 seconds charging round like a c*** trying to get it out of play.

It's not going to affect the result of the match, but it's still wrong.

Although I don't doubt for one minute the Pakistani cricketers involved have altered the outcome of matches, that shouldn't detract from the likely threats that were made to them.

[Gunner Down Under]

Saw SS showing clips of when they played Australia i think and half their players made Flappers look like Buffon! talk about butter fingers.

I watched that nailbiter of a match, and I seriously couldn't believe we won. I was all smiles...... until yesterday the news broke.

[Van The Man Persie]

Decider in the 5th ODI in less than 12 hours time

Thankfully this pathetic series is over.

Has been overshadowed with the fixing allegations