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Guilty of match-fixing: Salman Butt
TWO Pakistan international cricketers are facing jail after being found guilty today of match-fixing during last year's tour of England.
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A jury at London's Southwark Crown Court convicted former Test captain Salman Butt, 27, and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, 28, of plotting to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord's Test as part of a betting scam.
The pair were caught after an undercover reporter recorded UK-based sports agent Mazhar Majeed, 36, boasting how he could arrange for Pakistan cricketers to rig games for money.
Majeed claimed he had been carrying out match-fixing for two-and-a-half years and had made "masses and masses of money".
He spoke of the advantages of "grooming" younger cricketers to work with him and bragged that he had seven players in Pakistan's national side rigging games for him.
Mohammad Asif (Pic: Getty Images)
Salman Butt (Pic: Getty Images)
Mohammad Asif (Pic: Getty Images)
The corrupt agent also discussed deliberately losing the Oval Test match against England last summer for more than a million dollars and plotted to fix games at last year's Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/crick...tars-face-jail-115875-23530717/#ixzz1gmiM5KuT