Sydney Test under study

Pakistan's January Test defeat to Australia came under renewed scrutiny on Monday after it emerged an agent at the centre of a 'spot-fixing' scandal met players a few weeks after the match. The Australian newspaper printed what it said was a photo of Mazhar Majeed, the London-based businessman who has been quizzed by police over the scandal, dining with several players at a Perth restaurant three weeks after the match. The report comes after opening batsman Yasir Hameed claimed the Sydney Test, in which Australia recovered from almost certain defeat to record a rousing win, was fixed for illegal bookmaking syndicates. "In the Sydney Test Match they made 1.8 million pounds (2.8 million US dollars)," Hameed told British newspaper the News of the World in an undercover video recording. "They...

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Tricked by the tabloid!

Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed insisted Sunday he had been misled by an undercover reporter and was only repeating allegations he had read about when he said his teammates were corrupt. The News of the World newspaper said Hameed had "sensationally confirmed" its report last week that some Pakistan players had accepted money to fix aspects of the final Test match against England in London. He said he had never been approached by News of the World, and that he had never approached them. The incident was "largely inaccurately reported," he added. Hameed said that in talking to their reporter who broke the original story of the "spot-fixing" claims, he had been misled into thinking he was speaking to a potential sponsor. "Naturally, I was interested in what he had to say and we began a conversation,"...

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