Friday, November 18, 2011

Does Vinod Kambli think this match was fixed too?

For the last two days I have been seeing a clip on my television set which I had seen 15 years ago. On that dark night India had lost the semi final match to Sri Lanka and Vinod Kambli was crying. After being in a commanding position India had slipped to120/8 before the match was awarded to the Lankans because of crowd interference. Now Vinod Kambli has alleged that the semi final match was fixed. He blames Mohd. Azharuddin for choosing to field first and is also suspecting foul play in the way the Indian batting collapsed. I am not defending Azhar's decision to field first but one should remember that the same Lankan team easily chased India's target just ten days ago in another match. So it is quite possible that some members of the Indian team felt that it would be better to ask the Sri Lankans to bat first.
Secondly if Kambli suspects that the batting collapse in that innings had anything to do with match fixing can he explain whether another match where he featured was also fixed. This was the final at Sharjah against the same opposition in 2000. India was all out for 54 runs and Kambli had only scored 3 runs. So Mr.Kambli was this match also fixed and were you also involved?



India innings (target: 300 runs from 50 overs)
R
c Jayasuriya b Vaas
3
c & b Vaas
5
c Sangakkara b Vaas
3
c Jayasuriya b Vaas
3
c Arnold b Zoysa
9
b Muralitharan
11
b Muralitharan
4
run out (Sangakkara)
4
b Muralitharan
2
c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas
1
not out
3
Extras
(lb 2, w 2, nb 2)
6
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Total
(all out; 26.3 overs)
54

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Pakistan cricketers in Jail (Pic)

Three Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were sentenced to jail for their role in the spot fixing scandal which hit the Pakistan team during their tour to England.