KARACHI - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Zaka Ashraf has refused to comment on the spot-fixing scandal that has hit the Indian Premier League, referring to it as an internal matter of the BCCI. But the PCB chief said that his board had taken a number of steps to prevent its players from getting ...

NEW DELHI - Indian police said Sunday they had widened their probe into cricket spot-fixing after the arrest of three players and 11 bookmakers, warning that more teams were under the microscope. Test discard Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was among a trio of players from the Rajasthan Royals arrested on ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Chaudhry M Zaka Ashraf Friday said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would take appropriate measures to stop spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). “It was very unfortunate to know about spot-fixing in the IPL and I think ...

NEW DELHI - Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. "Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation," a Delhi Police official said.Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet ...

MUMBAI - BIPIN DANI - There are at least five corrupted matches in the current IPL, and not just the three, as claimed by the Delhi police, it is learnt here. According to highly placed sources, the information about spot-fixing taking place in the on-going IPL season was communicated to the ICC by ...

  ISLAMABAD The central executive committee of the Central Academic Staff Association (CASA) has highlighted the lingering problems of the teaching community here on Friday. Prof Murad Ali, general secretary of the association, said that teachers ofIslamabadmodel colleges have been facing ...

  MUSCAT   FormerPakistanfast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who retired from international cricket two years ago, believes that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is largely responsible for the persisting problem of spot-fixing that is plaguing cricket in his country. Speaking exclusively to Muscat ...

People are not taking the election process seriously. Why, because they have lost all confidence in their so-called leaders? These said leaders wasted five years of Pakistanis in a fixed match. Now again they are fixing the match to be played on May 11, 2013. The very existence of the country is in ...

    KARACHI Pakistanvowed Friday to keep its cricketers under a strict vigil inEnglandto avoid any repeat of a 2010 spot-fixing scandal that resulted in bans and jail for three players. An undercover reporter of the now defunct News of the World exposed former captain Salman Butt along ...

  KARACHI   Pakistani pacer Wahab Riaz believes the national team will not be haunted by the spot-fixing scandal when they go toEnglandfor the ICC Champions Trophy in June. Wahab was part of thePakistansquad that was hit by the spot-fixing scandal in 2010 after the fourth Test at Lords, ...

DUBAI ICC chief executive David Richardson Tuesday urged disgraced Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and M Asif to accept their guilt and share information on fixing to start their rehabilitation. Former captain Butt, along with fast bowlers Asif and M Aamir, was banned by the International Cricket ...

LAUSANNE - The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Thursday kicked off an appeal hearing where Pakistan cricketer M Asif hopes to overturn a ban imposed for spot-fixing. Matthieu Reeb, head of the Swiss-based tribunal, said the hearing was due to end at 6:00 pm local time (1700 GMT), and that fast ...

After fixing scandal, Indian Premier League (IPL) come with new controversy as Indian Bookie Sonu Yogendra Jalan has told investigators that he paid Rs100 million to a Sri Lankan cricket player for fixing a match, Indian media reports said on Saturday.According to media reports, he also revealed ...