pakistan clouded by match fixing again...
 

AOA,
Once again pak is under scrutiny for following a prearranged run rate during last ODI in england.The source of allegation is one tabloid named The Sun news.What is going on.I think ICC is deliberately attempting to roo out cricket from Pakistan.Who can be that much foolish to do it again when investagation of previus game are yet to be carried out.I dout the performance of PCB.It lack professionalism how else could these cases go such way.

( The Dawn news)


Pakistan’s ODI win at Oval under ICC scanner
Saturday, 18 Sep, 2010 Pakistan clouded by match-fixing allegations, once again. —AFP Photo Media Gallery
Gul guides Pakistan to first ODI win LONDON: The International Cricket Council has launched an investigation into Friday’s England-Pakistan one-day international based on information which suggested a scoring pattern in Pakistan’s innings was prearranged.

The ICC said Saturday that the investigation was based on information passed on by The Sun newspaper in England.

“A source informed The Sun newspaper that a certain scoring pattern would emerge during certain stages of the match and, broadly speaking, that information appeared to be correct,” ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said in a statement.

“We therefore feel it is incumbent upon us to launch a full enquiry into this particular game although it is worth pointing out at this stage that we are not stating as fact that anything untoward has occurred,” Lorgat said.

“Only in the fullness of the investigation can that be established.”

Pakistan won the game at the Oval in London by 23 runs.

The investigation comes after a previous fixing scandal on the tour, when a player agent allegedly received money for organizing players to bowl no-balls at prearranged times so as to fix spot betting markets.

The ICC has provisionally suspended three Pakistani cricketers – Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir – while a fourth player, Wahab Riaz, has been quizzed by British police following a spot-fixing scandal.

The Sun newspaper claimed it had passed on the information to the ICC before Friday’s third one-day international began at The Oval after it received details of calls between a notorious Dubai-based match fixer and a Delhi bookie.

“Cricket chiefs then watched as Pakistan’s score mirrored the target that bookies had been told in advance by a fixer,” the newspaper said.

The Sun’s report said ICC officials began their investigations even before Pakistan’s innings had ended, and that “it is not thought that the overall result was fixed, only scoring rates in parts of Pakistan’s innings.”

The ICC said it will work with The Sun newspaper staff and sources to “ensure full truth surrounding this match is ascertained.”

A Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman Nadeem Sarwar said Saturday that “the ICC has already issued it’s statement and we don’t think it is appropriate for us to comment at this stage.” —Agencies

Further allegations are evidence of prejudiced actions of ICC against Pakistan. Our players are not that stupid to repeat same blunder at this stage if they have previously indulged in such activity. Nobody can repeat any immoral activity in such a short span of time when already alleged issues are under probe.

As for as run rate or scoring pattern is concerned it is purely team strategy and games are won by strategies not by measure hard work without smart strategies. I consider this move an international attack over Pakistan's cricket.