Net widens, more games ‘rigged’?

SPOT-FIXING CONTROVERSY

New Delhi, Aug 30: International Cricket Council president Sharad Pawar has called for a conference call this afternoon between the England and Pakistan cricket boards to take stock of the situation after seven Pakistani players were named by The News of World and subsequently questioned by Scotland More

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‘Bookies earned 20mn pounds from Pak’s tour to Eng’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

London, Aug 30: The shocking match-fixing scandal, involving the Pakistan team, turned out to be a money spinner for the bookies with reports suggesting that the fixers may have raked in at least 20 million pounds from Pakistan’s matches in England this summer.  According to a report in the More

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‘Cash recovered from players hotel rooms’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

London, Aug 30: Cash exceeding their daily allowance was recovered from the hotel rooms of the Pakistani cricketers implicated in the “spot fixing” scandal during a raid conducted by the Scotland Yard here. “ Yawar Saeed received a phone call at the team’s hotel in Swiss Cottage, north London, at More

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