Tag: Spot
Ashraful admits fixing involvement
Former Bangladesh cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful was suspended from the sport on Tuesday after he confessed his involvement in fixing, a top cricket official...
Almagro takes Nadal’s spot
Nicolas Almagro will replace Rafael Nadal in the field for this week's Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event. The world number 11 has agreed...
Spot fixing threatens integrity of modern game
Any comfortable assumptions that world cricket has largely eradicated corruption after the shock of the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal are challenged in a disturbing...
Spot fixing: Pakistani cricketers were innocent, claims Hawkins
British Journalist Ed Hawkins has made yet another claim that the Pakistani cricketers who were earlier believed to be involved in spot fixing were...
Comic will benefit from ‘rough spot’, says Stosur
Samantha Stosur believes Bernard Tomic hasn’t adapted to the fame and fortune his tennis career has brought him, but the Australian tennis prodigy will...
Spot the difference?
Twitter is launching a new-look that it hopes will encourage more people to flock to the site – but the new, picture-heavy feel takes...
Butt and Amir appeals to be heard next week
Britain’s top judge will next Wednesday hear appeals by Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir against their sentences for spot-fixing, a judicial official...
Aamer didn’t do it for money
Mohammad Aamer had called his family in Lahore on Wednesday evening to ask them to pray for him and after the verdict his brother...
Another court awaits trio
A local court in Lahore ordered authorities to register a criminal case against former cricket captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. The...
Veena says no to Asif
Four days before the British courts declared former Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif guilty of match-fixing, on October 28, Pakistani actress Veena Malik received a...
Judge permits majority verdict
The judge in the spot-fixing trial of former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif told the jury Monday he would...
Amir and Majeed involved: judge
Justice Cooke began his summing-up of the alleged spot-fixing trial and directed the jury to deliberate for a verdict on the basis that agent...
I was approached by Majeed: Afridi
Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi has said that he was also approached by agent Mazhar Majeed but did not give details. Talking...
Court hears how the plan unfolded
The Southwark Crown Court heard on Monday a recording of how the alleged Pakistan spot-fixing controversy was spawned - from an initial conversation about...
Salman Butt agreed to bat maiden over: prosecutor
Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt agreed to score no runs in an over during a Test match against England last year as part...
Banned trio to appear in court today
Banned Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif will go on trial in the spot-fixing case in London on Tuesday.
According to reports,...