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 gave away the match."
Hameed has since insisted that his comments were "largely inaccurately reported".
Reports also said the International Cricket Council (ICC) had written to wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, who put down four catches in the Sydney Test, on an unknown matter.
Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif have been suspended after the News of the World allegedly caught Majeed organising no-balls to order during last month's Lord's Test against England.
The newspaper filmed Majeed receiving 150,000 pounds to facilitate the scam.
Reports in British media at the weekend said up to 15,000 pounds in marked bills paid in the newspaper sting had been recovered from the players' hotel rooms by investigators.

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