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Kamran Akmal was 'Kami' for bookie Majeed

Text messages retrieved from Mazhar Majeed's mobile phone indicate his close ties with Pakistani wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, who was nicknamed 'Kami' by the alleged match-fixer.

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Player hid cell phone in helmet: Former Pak cricketer

A former Pakistani Test cricketer has alleged that a national player had hidden a mobile phone inside the right earpiece of his helmet while waiting to bat during an international match.

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Dawood calls all shots: Pak bookie

Karachi, Sept. 4: A Pakistani bookmaker has revealed that most of the bookies involved in match-fixing are ultimately answerable to India’s ‘most wanted man’, the Karachi-based underworld don Dawood I

KP set to face music after Twitter tirade

Cardiff, Sept. 4: Kevin Pietersen is to face disciplinary action over his foul-mouthed Twitter tirade following his dropping from the England Twenty20 and one-day squads.

Pietersen, never before axed

ICC finally acts, but is it enough?

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The International Cricket Council’s move on Friday to suspend Pakistan’s Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir under its anti-corruption code comes at the end of a turbulent decade that has seen the governing body playing catch-up with shady characters and gullible players, when it should have been rounding up culprits and weeding out corruption.

Pakistan trio released without charge

The tainted Pakistani trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, which is at the centre of a “spot-fixing scandal” that has rocked world cricket, was released without charge after being que

PCB might sue ICC if tainted trio found innocent

Miffed with the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit's handling of the “spot-fixing” scandal involving Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, the Pakistan Cricket Board might sue the ACSU if t

Pak diplomats embarrassed by 'loose cannon' Hasan

Pakistan's high commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan has been branded a "loose cannon" by the diplomats of his own country for his outbursts against the International Cricket Council in the “sp

Pakistan stars released without charge: Lawyer

British police released without charge three Pakistani cricket players embroiled in fixing claims after questioning them under caution on Friday, their lawyer said.

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Amir, Asif axed from ICC awards list: Source

Embattled Pakistan bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif, currently embroiled in a corruption storm, have been dropped from the International Cricket Council's annual awards list.

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