The Biggest match fixers “Australian cricketers”
The Biggest match fixers “Australian cricketers”
A cricket agent accused of taking bribes to fix matches claimed that Australian players and Pakistan stars were also involved in betting scams, a court heard on Monday.Mazhar Majeed, 36, told an undercover journalist the Australians were ‘the biggest’ when it came to rigging games, Southwark Crown Court was told.
Claiming match-fixing had been going on ‘for centuries’, he named celebrated former Pakistan fast-bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis as alleged participants.
It’s a fix: Mazhar Majeed claimed in court that Australian cricketers were the biggest match fixers
It’s a fix: Mazhar Majeed claimed in court that Australian cricketers were the biggest match fixers
It’s a fix: Mazhar Majeed claimed in court that Australian cricketers were the biggest match fixers
Majeed also boasted that he knew Hollywood star Brad Pitt and tennis ace Roger Federer ‘very well’ and could arrange for them to promote a proposed cricket tournament in the United Arab Emirates, the court heard.
The jury was played covert recordings of meetings between the London-based agent and former News of the World journalist Mazher Mahmood, who was posing as a rich Indian businessman seeking major international players for the tournament.
Accused: Former Pakistan fast bowlers Wasim Akram (left) and Waqar Younis (right) have been named in court by Mazhar Majeed
Accused: Former Pakistan fast bowlers Wasim Akram (left) and Waqar Younis (right) have been named in court by Mazhar Majeed
Accused: Former Pakistan fast bowlers Wasim Akram (left) and Waqar Younis (right) have been named in court by Mazhar Majeed
Majeed met Mr Mahmood at a west London restaurant on August 18 last year – the first day of Pakistan’s Oval Test against England – and after the meal discussed match-fixing in the undercover reporter’s car, the court was told.
Naming famous former Pakistan national cricketers, the agent said in the recording: ‘It’s been happening for centuries. It’s been happening for years. Wasim, Waqar, Ijaz Ahmed, Moin Khan – they all did it.’
Majeed went on to allege that Australian players would fix “brackets”, a set period of a match on which punters bet, for example, how many runs will be scored.
‘The Australians, they are the biggest. They have 10 brackets a game,‘ he said in the tape played to the court.
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