Lalith Modi's Startling Claims on Underworld Match Fixing

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 03 November 2011, 22:56 IST
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So what exactly happened that led to a case of such serious nature? When it was revealed by World Investigations that the Pakistani players had taken to corrupt practices in England, Pakistan Cricket Board immediately suspended their contracts, and ICC suspended the players from the game pending an investigation. After a long hearing in Qatar, ICC found these players guilty and banned them from all forms of the game. That is all the ICC could have done, and the matter should have ended there. But it soon became a criminal case in a British court that led to a 17 day trial, after which the judges pronounced their guilty verdict.