Hameed denies new allegations
Reuters - Sat, 04 Sep 22:20:00 2010
Pakistan Test opener Yasir Hameed has denied he told the News of the World that his team-mates had been involved in match-rigging and that he had been offered £100,000 to fix a match himself.
The Sunday newspaper has quoted Hameed as saying that some of his team-mates were fixing "almost every match".
"They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to," he is quoted as saying.
However Hameed, who played in the last two Tests of the series against England, said he had never spoken to the newspaper.
"I have given no interview to this newspaper. So the question of my saying my team-mates fix matches does not arise," Hameed told Geo News in Karachi.
"I am deeply disturbed right now with this development. I am trying to speak to the Pakistan manager to tell him this is wrong."
Pakistan team sources told Reuters that the News of the World statement had come as a shock to the players and officials who are already under pressure because of the inquiry into the spot-fixing betting allegations against the suspended trio of Test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir.
"The team is in a meeting right now and I can't speak to you right now," manager Yawar Saeed said from Cardiff, where Pakistan play England in a Twenty20 international on Sunday.
The sources said Pakistan High Commissioner, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, was also attending the meeting.
After a News of the World sting last week appeared to implicate Butt, Amir and Asif in spot-fixing, the tabloid is preparing to run with additional claims, including the alleged comments of Hameed and a revelation that a fourth player is being investigated by the ICC.
In a statement the newspaper said it would print a second series of revelations on Sunday including news of an investigation into a player who it did not identify.
"The News of the World is not naming this player for legal reasons," the statement said.
The ICC suspended Test captain Butt and pace bowlers Amir and Asif last Thursday under its anti-corruption code. The Metropolitan Police have questioned the trio.
Saturday's statement also said Hameed has claimed some of his team-mates were fixing "almost every match".
"They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to," he is quoted as saying.
"Scotland Yard was after them for ages. It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose."
An ICC spokesman said the world governing body would not comment on the allegation that another player was being investigated.
"We don't comment on ongoing investigations," he said.
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pak get paid to loose ooooohhhh my god to make some khaki look a like suuuupersta eh
u @#$% roman u aint gonna teach me anything
what got quran to do with cricket at least its not the brand new teastoment which nobody has read yet
u @#$% roman u aint gonna teach me anything
Look Bharat and Bobito you both idiots you both don't know me and i don't know you both as well!
First thing Bharat not that if you think that my english is rubbish, it means you can't take truth and i am sorry to say to you Bharat your thinking is also rubbish as well!
Second thing Bobito,
If you believe world biggest cheating Pakistan said it was Indian bookmarkers why PCB don't name Indian bookmarkers?
because real truth behind PCB are also corruption as well and hide crimes and real truth is PCB were also offer birbe Mohammed Youfi to quit ICL Indian Cricket league, because ICL is doing really well in the 2009 and PCB were scared that ICL will be bigger then PCB!
So where is Indian bookmarkers names? just tell me Bobito!
Or could be Pakistanis bookmarkers as well! But God knows about it Pakistan will never named their own people bring it because as they say they are muslims and they don't do crimes!
What a lot of rubbish and Pakistan are full of lies and you will watch Bobito Pakistan cricket will be over and whole world hate Pakistan and i don't want to talk you rubbish and i don't trust you talk rubbish and i know you hate India and i hate your pakistan talbains and i know whole world does make mistakes which is no problems but Pakistan are more crimes nation and dirty baboons!
Hooray England beat Pakistan and won by five wickets and Pakistan go back your tabalin nation and get killed because you kill Bob Woolmer and also you also killed Sri Lankan team in 2009 and god will kill Pakistan team in one day
According to apple eating Afridi--Yasir Hameed has a mental age of 16. Affidavit under duress of cigar smoking High Commissioner may not have any relevance.
Pakistan or for that matter any other country should not protect tainted players. Cricket needs Pakistani cricketers--honest ones & we need to hear statements like the reconciliation in South Africa about all the fixed matches.
Could be excellent viewing!!!!!
Mandeep - You might want to ask yourself who is behind such betting scams. It is almost certainly illegal Indian bookmakers and Indian organized crime at the heart of it. It was in India that Hanse Cronje was caught agreeing to fix a match. It was Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin who introduced Cronje to those Indian fraudsters in the first place.
The responsibility for this problem lies firmly with India.
Pakistanis claim to know God more than any other person on earth, yet they involve themselves in this kind of mess, why?
Firstly NOTW is a gutter paper, you can't even call it a Newspaper so I am not so sure of whatever they say has any credibility. Secondly, let's hope there is a fair investigation into this and they make everything clear so that we can all move on.
Its not fair to put all the blame for a corrupt nation on a few young and naive sportsmen, they have been corrupted by greed which fuels the corruption of an entire nation. Their nation will forgive them because the whole system is corrupt, why do we even bother with them !
CASH HANDOUTS ~~~~~~~~ NEVER MIND THE CRICKET
MORE PROFITABLE TO LOSE ~~~ HAS BEEN FOR YEARS
SURELY THE GREEDY GANG WON ENOUGH ON FIRST TEST ALONE
Pakistan cricket has been cheating, fiddling, lying, corrupt, self serving for decades....just look at the bent umpires in the Mike Gatting case.....when challenged they will climb on their high horses and lie through their teeth, taking the high moral ground. Just like their commision is doing now.
In light of the terrible diaster unfolding in pakistan at this moment ( were even their prime minster is still leaving the country on his jollies) the whole team should be brought home and the guilty punished..
Truth is..pakistan has never tried and never will clean up its dirty cricketing image.
Merrrrrr... 3.50??? Yaldi and errr Cricket.. I aint watchin no god @#$% cricket. Wheres the door...?
Mandeep- I am sorry but as an indian - I am sorry to say that your English is rubbish- and also there is no need to drag up all these stats and points- the debate is about match fixing by Pakistani players in UK. Let' s keep to the debate shall we? By the way there have been lots of Pakistani players I have enjoyed watching even though I would support India over Pakistan. Players like, Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Waqar Younis, even Inzhy.
Imran, if you i am racist and what you people boombing all over world want you call this?
That is racist as well Imran!
India is great nation: Secular Nation and Secular State!
India we have Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christans, Buddhists, Jains, Jews and Parsis and we all living happy!
India has world largest Muslims home birth then any muslims nations in the world but they Indians and i love Indian Islams and they better then Pakistan people Imran!
We Indians are very humble and Pakistan nobody don't like Pakistan and Imran you can't take truth and Pakistan is wipe out very soon on the map and hooray and Allah is great and wipe out Pakistan hootray, means Pakistan don't like their cricket anymore and their job is tabalin cricket assocoation of Pakistan!
I have 200 India Favourites teams! My 26 Indian favourites teams all made me proud and proud forever great!
This great happy memories stories!
HYDERABAD HEROES BEAT LAHORE BADSHASHS AND WIN ICL CUP 2008!
ICL INDIA BEAT ICL PAKISTAN IN 2008!
INDIA DOMESTICS TEAM BEAT PAKISTAN DOMESTICS IN 2006!
INDIA DOMESTICS DRAWN AGAINST PAKISTAN DOMESTICS IN 2007!
INDIA DOMESTICS DRAWN AGAINST PAKISTAN DOMESTICS IN 2008!
GURAJAT DEAF CRICKET ASSOCIATION BEAT LAHORE DEAF CRICKET ASSOCIATION WON BY FIVE WICKETS AND WIN TROPHY DEAF IN DUBAI IN APRIL 2010!
INDIA JUNIOR UNDER 19'S INTERNATIONALS WON DOUBLE SERIES TRIUMPH IN PAKISTAN IN 2006!
WORLD CUP RECORDS BEATING LIKE 1992, 1996, 1999 AND 2003 ALL HAILED INDIA!
Kumble ten wickets batted Pakistan and won level 1-1 series and shared trophy in 1999!
Happy and happy and many happy memories rewinds years India is great and Pakistan they are biggest cheats in the world and Pakistan is most dangerous nation in the world, and sexy India women also beat Pakistan women!
IMRAN THAT IS MY TRUTH YOU SAID I AM RACIST YOU ARE RACIST AS WELL YOU PEOPLE DON'T LIKE ANYBODY ONLY PAKISTAN AND WHAT PAKISTAN GIVING YOU? NOTHING AND JACK A
Uncle Romans Cash Handouts,
You are absolutely right the Koran is to blame its a facist book which incites violence, and is nothing more than a hate speech, enough on that and back to cricket, while it is true that Pakistani players are not the only ones ever to be accused of match fixing, it is difficult to argue that they haven't been at the centre of the very great majority of controversies to face cricket over the last decade,Their name with cricket is constantly in the news not just for the wrong reasons but the worst ones. At the moment the gloss is obviously taken off cricket altogether
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I agree with everything you say, but we must not tar Indians, Sri Lankans etc with that brush, they are fine, its just the Pakistanis, a lot of Pakistani people I know are always doing something illegal, from credit card fraud to fiddling books, and they never ever have a good word to say about British, American, European or even Indians, it always hatred talk. And its disgusting how they label white women as whores and dirty, they need to take a reality check on their own culture. Yes don't trust them and throw them out of cricket for a long time till they learn to put to one side corruption.
Throw Pakistan out of test cricket, and also carry out an investigation on the the country in other sports they compete in such as hockey etc etc. I have lost my faith in cricket because of all this
Throw Pakistan out of test cricket, and also carry out an investigation on the the country in other sports they compete in such as hockey etc etc. I have lost my faith in cricket because of all this
mandeep you racist idiot talk cricket not bull$%^&*
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