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Originally Posted by EnglishLad72
It's in the News of the World, so it must be correct, right?
This is one of the no-balls in question, from Muhammad Amir.
He's about 8 inches past the popping crease. Given how they are usually on the line and in the same place to within an inch or so every time, if this is merely a genuine overstep then it is so far off the scale it's unreal. The alleged dodgy no-ball by Asif, as would be expected from a canny old pro, is only an inch or so over, but as a callow kid, Amir couldn't really do it properly and went so far over to be certain that it was also far too obvious.
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Originally Posted by Badminton
If its no balls only then its hardley outright match fixing
It is spot fixing. It's artificially altering an outcome. It's just as bad. At the moment it's not match fixing in the sense that they haven't affected the overall result of the match, but it starts from the odd no ball and moves on from there as they become sucked in for more money.
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Originally Posted by andy099
i mean i can see asif doing this because of his history and akmal because hes obviously a dick but why would you influence a sensationally talented 18 year old into cheating
This.
Asif and Akmal I couldn't give a f*** about; Asif is a multi-disciplined cheat and drug user, whose drug conviction should have meant he wasn't even let into the country (he had to miss their games in Abu Dhabi because the UAE denied him entry for this reason) and Akmal is just about the worst keeper in international cricket anyway. But Amir can bowl and should have had a glittering career in front of him. But at just 18 years old he's still a naive kid and he's been corrupted. It's a real shame.
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Originally Posted by scoop05333
although the NOTW is scum, this is pretty solid looking evidence. Scum pakistan, ban them all for life
I don't think this is the answer. The problem is that the combination of the high profile of their games and relatively poor financial status of their players in comparison with their peers in international cricket makes them the prime targets for the organisers of these betting scams. If you remove Pakistan then the betting scams will simply move on to the next most attractive target, which I would tentatively guess would be the West Indies.
The scammers won't give up on it if Pakistan were banned, because there's simply too much money in it for them. Globally, more money is wagered on cricket than on any other sport; neither horse racing nor football, nor anything else, even come close to the sums bet on cricket.