While many of agent Mazhar Majeed’s shocking claims revealed during the spot-fixing hearing may have been attempts at impressing the undercover journalist, his comments regarding Australian players being the ‘biggest match-fixers’ were entirely true, according to former Test cricketer Basit Ali.
Cricket Australia and its players have denied Majeed’s allegations.
However, Basit insisted that what the agent had said about the Australians was true.
“Majeed has told the truth about them,” he said. “They’re the biggest fixers.”
Ali claimed that Australia’s World Cup match against Zimbabwe earlier this year was an example of their corrupt practices. “They scored 26 runs off the first 10 overs with batsmen like Watson and Brad Haddin at the crease. It was a perfect example of fancy fixing.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 18th, 2011.
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fixing is fixing.spot fixing or match fixing.basit has a point.their match against zim is an example
Think guys.. Mazhar Majeed claim about Pakistani Players are true but if the same guy telling something about other country's players he is became a lier.. Double Standards
Will our people stop throwing up accusations without providing proof please?
@Doctor: we are talking of fancy fixing here....if you know what it means....it is not "match fixing" it is "spot/fancy fix"
@ Doctor: He's talking about spot fixing (where are certain phase of the innings can be fixed), not match fixing. The highest amounts can be won by betting on things that are least probable - like Haddin and Watson conjuring up only 26 odd runs in the first ten overs against Zimbabwe.
Usually fixing involves losing. Australia usually wins.