The
2010 Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy refers to allegations stemming from a report by
News of the World released during the
Pakistani cricket team's tour of England that Pakistani players
Mohammad Asif,
Mohammad Amir and
Salman Butt had accepted bribes from agent and bookmaker
Mazhar Majeed to purposely under-perform at certain points in the 4th Test at
Lord's Cricket Ground in
London,
England. Undercover reporters from
News of the World secretly video-taped Mazhar Majeed accepting money and informing the reporters that fast bowlers Asif and Amir would deliberately bowl
no-balls at specific points in an over — information which could be used by gamblers to make wagers with inside information (a process known as
spot-fixing, compared with match fixing to predetermine a match result).In response to the revelations and allegations,
Scotland Yard arrested Majeed on the charge of
match-fixing. The
International Cricket Council (ICC) temporarily suspended the three players from playing further in international cricket until their names are cleared of wrongdoing the players deny the charges and maintain their innocence.
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