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Pakistan's Mohammad Aamer (left) and Mohammad Asif during team's training session ahead of their first Test match against England at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. (AFP Photo)
LONDON: The match-fixing story broke on Saturday night after early editions of the News Of The World hit the stands.
Also Read: Most damning incidents of match-fixing
Bookie M azhar Majeed had taken a £10,000 advance from the newspaper to make Mohammad Asif (who was implicated in drug-taking after the first season of the Indian Premier League) and teenage fast-bowling sensation Mohammad Aamer bowl illegal balls which happened at precise moments promised to the paper. He was caught on candid camera taking the rest of the money. This recording was handed over to police.
NOTW's undercover team posed as front men for a Far East gambling cartel. Majeed said to them: "I'm going to give you three no-balls to prove to you firstly that this is what's happening. They've all been organized, okay?"
Majeed proceeded to tell the group pretending to be a syndicate that they could make millions by paying him for information on matches and then placing bets. He tried to defend the players' disgraceful conduct by saying: "These poor boys need to. They're paid peanuts."
At NOTW's first meeting with Majeed on August 16, he said, "I manage 10 of the (Pakistani) players. I do all their affairs like contracts, sponsorship, marketing, everything." Then, rather embarrassingly for Pakistani authorities, he said, "I work very closely with the PCB ( Pakistan Cricket Board)." Saeed revealed: "When we started this tour, I told the players they shouldn't be entertaining these two (Majeed and his brother Azhar Majeed) in their hotel rooms."
Meanwhile, Bill Akass, managing editor of NOTW, told a television channel that the scandal could be "the tip of the iceberg".
"He (Majeed) spoke of recent Tests in Australia and that they had been thrown and $1.3 m had been made as a profit from them. He also spoke about forthcoming matches they were planning to lose," Akass added.
Also Read: Most damning incidents of match-fixing
Bookie M azhar Majeed had taken a £10,000 advance from the newspaper to make Mohammad Asif (who was implicated in drug-taking after the first season of the Indian Premier League) and teenage fast-bowling sensation Mohammad Aamer bowl illegal balls which happened at precise moments promised to the paper. He was caught on candid camera taking the rest of the money. This recording was handed over to police.
NOTW's undercover team posed as front men for a Far East gambling cartel. Majeed said to them: "I'm going to give you three no-balls to prove to you firstly that this is what's happening. They've all been organized, okay?"
Majeed proceeded to tell the group pretending to be a syndicate that they could make millions by paying him for information on matches and then placing bets. He tried to defend the players' disgraceful conduct by saying: "These poor boys need to. They're paid peanuts."
At NOTW's first meeting with Majeed on August 16, he said, "I manage 10 of the (Pakistani) players. I do all their affairs like contracts, sponsorship, marketing, everything." Then, rather embarrassingly for Pakistani authorities, he said, "I work very closely with the PCB ( Pakistan Cricket Board)." Saeed revealed: "When we started this tour, I told the players they shouldn't be entertaining these two (Majeed and his brother Azhar Majeed) in their hotel rooms."
Meanwhile, Bill Akass, managing editor of NOTW, told a television channel that the scandal could be "the tip of the iceberg".
"He (Majeed) spoke of recent Tests in Australia and that they had been thrown and $1.3 m had been made as a profit from them. He also spoke about forthcoming matches they were planning to lose," Akass added.
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