Friday, 13 January 2006

Match-fixing

This is fascinating. The Pakistani high court judge who oversaw the match-fixing trials has admitted that he let Wasim Akram off easily because he had a "soft corner" for him and didn't want the great all-rounder to end his career in disgrace. He also stated that his investigation into some matches - including Pakistan's World Cup loss to Bangladesh - was blocked, presumably by the Pakistan board.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fascinating? It's an absolute disgrace! Why the hell is all this coming out now? Why was he quite before? Defies belief why the ICC didn't arrange for a private investigation of it's own. But then, the ICC doing things that defy belief have become rather common off late.