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Yeah this makes me really sad. It wasnt enough for them to get crushed 3-1 but they had to run our name in the mud some more by participating in match fixing. To make matters worse a couple of the accused are Pakistan's brightess bowling prospects and this will kill their careers, as it should.

I'm only hoping none of it is true. Only time will tell.

Yeah, he is being hailed as one of the great young bowlers.

That said, knowing Pakistani cricket, even if the players were found guilty, my bet is they won't be punished as severly as they should be. (No pun intended.) It will most likely be a slap on the wrist, like it always is.

Mohammad Asif's – one of accused – ex-girlfriend claims he is a "serial fixer": http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/cricket/08-ex-girlfriend-says-asif-a-serial-fixer-ts-05.

Don't know how true it is, but it sounds like a disgruntled ex taking advantage of the situtation.

(FWIW, Muslims aren't even supposed to have girlfriends/boyfriends.)

I don't want to play the racism card, but it is interesting that whenever a South Asian cricket team is involved with controversy, everyone seems to want to provide their opinion, it gets huge media coverage, etc. However, when a team like England or Australia is involved, the backlash is much less.

Case in point: I wonder what the backlash would have been if a Pakistani bowler threw the ball at an English batsmen, as Stuart Broad did at Zulqarnain Haider, potentially aggrevating an injury that caused Haider to sit out the rest of the games. I will go out on a limb and say the backlash would have definitely been more profound.

Of course it doesn't help that the PCB has no backbone.