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Spot fixing exists in cricket, says Shahryar Khan
London | March 26, 2007 4:19:52 PM IST
Former Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shahryar Khan has admitted that corruption exists within the national team. The highly respected diplomat backed England cricket captain Michael Vaughan's assertion that some form of match manipulation is still going on in cricket. Speaking to the BBC, Khan said: "I think spot-fixing is very much prevalent and really something you cannot prevent. This is opposed to match fixing, which requires a whole team." "I know this team and, I don't think they would engage in match fixing. They were the most morally upright team I came across," the Daily Mail quoted Khan, as saying. Khan supports the broadly held view that gone are the days when a whole team might congregate in a room and plot to lose a match, as is known to have happened in the Nineties. Khan said yesterday that coach Bob Woolmer never shared any doubts with him about match fixing, but then it is an area into which the coach would have had a natural reluctance to stray. Khan said: "There was always a question-mark regarding Bob taking total control of the team. There was resistance from Inzamam because he was the unquestioned leader. Bob found it difficult sometimes if he was giving advice that may not be accepted by Inzy. Bob felt he should have had full control but didn't." (ANI)
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