Cricket: England demands Pakistan cricket chief’s apology over bribery allegations
LONDON: England players demanded a “full and unreserved apology” from Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt on Thursday and threatened legal action after he alleged they had deliberately lost last week’s third one-day international at The Oval.

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Cricket hit by new betting allegations
Cricket, the game which used to be a sport but is increasingly a body of litigation, suffered a further depressing blow yesterday. Claims were made that parts of Friday’s one-day match between England and Pakistan were subverted, and the International Cricket Council, whose processes for this kind of thing are now well-rehearsed, duly announced an investigation.

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Pakistan Cricket Team Suffers Dual Defeats After Allegations of Tampering
For fans in Pakistan, where cricket is the national sport, the allegations were just another in a long string of bad news in their flood-stricken, violence-plagued country.

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