I've never known anything like it. On the face of it the level of fixing in this match at Lord's as presented by the News of the World sounds fairly innocuous in terms of influencing the result of the match, i.e. giving away three runs by bowling deliberate no balls, but now no one knows what else might have been fixed in the past. In fact, having read Sunday's NotW in full it seems Pakistan were trying desperately to win the Lord's Test so Salman Butt, the ringleader of the corrupt players, would be retained as captain! It is also suggested Pakistan threw their Test in Sydney earlier this year with the Aussies 40/1 with bookmakers to win it at one stage.
Pakistani cricket is so turbulent, with often bizarre selection and recall of players and captains, I don't trust anything they do now and have no interest in watching them. The forthcoming one day internationals really ought to be cancelled IMO. If I was an England player I wouldn't feel like playing against Pakistan right now, or for some time to come. The players implicated in this scandal surely cannot take part if they do go ahead.
