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Spot-fixing controversy
Richard Sydenham at Southwark Crown Court
October 10, 2011
Pakistan were to throw at least one limited-over international on the 2010 tour of England, a court was told on Monday, and only the timing of the News of the World's expose seemed to prevent such a result from occurring.
Mazhar Mahmood, the undercover investigative journalist who sparked the alleged spot-fixing controversy, was appearing as a prosecution witness at Southwark Crown Court on the fourth day in the trial involving former captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who are alleged to have bowled pre-determined no balls. They deny the charges.
Registered with the secret agent pickups and alleged accomplice Mazhar Majeed was played in all parts Monday and is discussed with the intention of results is set in the match in five sets of 50 courses or two Twenty20 games .
One can safely assume that refers to the test matches because of the recordings had been previously Majeed said it was important that his "best friend" and an important customer of Salman Butt has won the test, so he remained in office for long time. Pakistan Shahid Afridi was the captain of 20 and 50 on the forms at that time.
Those games followed by a four-match test series that England won 3-1. Newspaper, however, exposed the alleged corruption on Saturday, the fourth and final Test of the Lord. The jury, which is followed by a transcript of the recording, listeners Majeed is vague boasts of his corrupt intentions.
"We have worked for the next month for a long time," Majeed was heard a segment.
And the numbers in the same recording, he told reporters during a chat in a car parked outside the Gloucester Road in London: "We are doing two things quickly, within a month."
The journalist confirmed their intentions with the question "So, Pakistan is going to lose and then what?"
Majeed said: "Pakistan is going to lose, but you know that Pakistan, as a game, you know like a game of cricket that comes and goes, yes, it is your responsibility to put in at the right time because there will be times in this party, no matter what the odds before, will be included in the game when Pakistan were the favorites. "
Mahmood asked if any errors and if there was a danger that the (fictitious), the Far East, the supporters of losing money on false information, Majeed said: "They work, do not worry."
Majeed was heard before the journalist promised "four or five brackets for the test of the Lord", and two no-balls, which was intended as the tester Majeed shows his influence on his players under control.
A hook is a sequence of ten courses, where players can kick over a certain amount of running in a particular period or a number of no-balls, for example. Majeed said a strong console will cost between £ 50,000 and £ 80,000. The jury was told last week that prices Majeed result of a real test of £ 1 million, a solid one-day international at £ 450,000 and a Twenty20 international at £ 400,000.
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