England v Pakistan Test Series ** Spoilers**

Very good use of the review system there. Butt can't have any complaints about the decision, however unhappy he was with the chat around the bat.
 
At the close of play Pakistan are 41-4 (15.3 overs):

Farhat c Cook b Broad 5
Hameed lbw b Anderson 3
Butt lbw b Swann 21
Mohammad Yousuf c Trott b Finn 10
Azhar not out 0
Extras 2
 
LOLPakistan...that is ****ing all:mad::mad:

Absolutely ****ing dreadful batting by a bunch of inept bloody idiots...
 
Just watched the highlights now, Pakistan were demoralised by Trott/Broad's stand it seemed like they just wanted the test over with.
 
Don't tell me the last game in a test series against Pakistan is going to end in controversy again.

A bizarre game just took a turn for the more bizarre.
 
Ouch!

Cricinfo understands from a source close to the investigation that a sum of £25,000 was found in the room of one of the Pakistan players, with further sums of £3000-4000 found on two other players. The source also confirmed that Mazher was known to the team, but in an informal capacity, and added that they fully expected to resume the Lord's Test on Sunday morning.
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Is it possible that the umpires or the ICC can cancel the Test match or award victory to England as a result of these allegations?

Why is it that for their second tour of England in a row Pakistan have managed to get themselves into one heck of a mess?

Even allowing for their disastrous on-field performance, Pakistan left Lord's with unusual haste after the third day's play, with the team bus departing barely 20 minutes after the close of play, before any member of the squad had taken part in the mandatory post-match press conference.
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Sounds like they were having a bad game but in hindsight its easy to think that they knew something was about to happen and so they legged it.

http://www.cricinfo.com/england-v-pakistan-2010/content/story/474890.html
 
Sounds proper dodgy from that report especially the no-ball calls :(

Would be a terrible shame for the England players, Broad especially, if their achievements are tainted with this rubbish. If it's true though has to be lifetime bans at the very least being dished out :mad:
 
Rich_L said:
Would be a terrible shame for the England players, Broad especially, if their achievements are tainted with this rubbish.
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Agree completely. They'd never know if they made their own scores or if the runs were practically given to them. Not nice for Broad getting his maiden century in what seems to be such dodgy circumstances.

Rich_L said:
If it's true though has to be lifetime bans at the very least being dished out :mad:
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The PCB got rid of some players for corruption after the Australia tour didn't it? Or was it just for in-fighting? I think the ICC will have to give out lifetime bans, if the allegations are found to be true, if just to make a statement that the ICC wants cricket to be clean and free of corruption. Get involved in bribery and match fixing and you'll never play professional cricket again. A fair enough warning I think.

So at the moment Pakistan can't play matches at home, their team is low on confidence and possibly missing home due to the floods and now they've got corruption allegations hanging over them. Can it sink any lower?
 
The potential ramifications from all this are staggering. The thought that someone like Amir, surely the greatest emerging bowling talent in world cricket at the moment, could face a life ban over this is incredible.

Going to be a very strange atmosphere when the match restarts this morning (if it does at all).
 
marktime said:
The potential ramifications from all this are staggering. The thought that someone like Amir, surely the greatest emerging bowling talent in world cricket at the moment, could face a life ban over this is incredible.

Going to be a very strange atmosphere when the match restarts this morning (if it does at all).
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Absolutely agree with this. Pakistani cricket is often embroiled in controversy (frankly part of the reason I love cricket is for the amount it seems to engage with politics), but to see somebody as young and as talented as Amir involved is a real shame. He ought to have an amazing future in the game ahead of him, and be a star for 15+ years to come, and to throw it all away as it appears he has done based on current reports is idiotic, and a real shame for cricket.

News of the World said:
In the most sensational sporting scandal ever
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It's a big story, but overstatement much? Frankly I'd argue that it's not even the biggest scandal in cricket - the Hansie Cronje affair was surely bigger to start with?
 
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