Pakistan’s discarded Test player Yasir Hameed scored a moral victory over British tabloid in a spot-fixing scandal last year after his complaint was upheld. According to Yasir’s lawyer, Umar Khayyam, the UK Press Complaint Commission has ordered the tabloid to take off from its website, a video and story about the Pakistan opener in which he was seen discussing the fall-out from the Lord’s spot-fixing scandal. “The commission will release a detailed judgement soon but the ‘News Of the World’ has been told to take all video and transcripts relating to the so-called interview with Yasir off their website immediately and that is a great moral victory for us,” Khayyam said.
The Commission found NOW guilty of misleading Yasir and recording his discussion with an undercover reporter who posed as a businessman. “A formal apology could also come soon from the tabloid,” one source added. Hameed had lodged a formal complaint with the UK Press Complaint Commission against the famous tabloid in February. Hameed, a right-hand opening batsman, who last played for Pakistan during the team’s tour to England in 2010, was the subject of a sting operation by the tabloid, in which he was seen discussing about the spot-fixing controversy hovering around the Pakistan team, among other things.
Hameed said he was duped by the investigative reporter who came to him in a hotel in Nottingham claiming to be a representative of a global airline who wanted to talk about possible sponsorship deals.
The complaint by the player centered on four points of inaccurate reporting, a breach of privacy, misrepresentation of character and harassment. However, the case is not yet concluded with the PCC unable to make a final ruling until the criminal trial involving Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt has been completed. “We have made clear to Mr Hameed that we are unable to continue our investigation at the moment, in light of the associated legal proceedings which, while they do not relate directly to Mr Hameed, are relevant to the matter,” the PCC told ESPNcricinfo in a statement.
“The case is now on hold until the conclusion of the proceedings, at which time we will pursue the matter with the News of the World. The newspaper has removed the article from its website pending the outcome of our investigation. As such, the Commission has made no ruling at this point.”
I think News of the world also linked in conspiracy of sending M. Majid . So amir also need a moral victory. We are messing Amir in the Playground & PCB should take some effort to back him in cricket. If Amir is an Indian national , now we could see him in cricket.
I am in a bit of bother here, I am confused, how can a bookie books only the batsman to play a maiden over. A bowler can bowl a no ball or a wide ball.
A bookie books something which he can book 100% right.
A maiden over involves a batsman to block all balls and take no run .
A maiden over also involves a bowler not to bowl a no ball or wide or not to bowl a bouncer twice.
In a test match a bowler loves to experiment.
That means it’s 50% from bowler and 50% batsman.
Why would a bookie books something in which he not sure that would happen?
Or did he book both, for 100% surety?
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