ISLAMABAD – Al Jazeera has released a documentary exposing the scandalwhich could come out to be one of the biggest scandal in cricket world.
The documentary revealed a phone call made by Munawar to an unnamed Englandplayer just before the start of the 2011 World Cup. He is heard telling theplayer:
“Congratulations for the Ashes. The last payment is ready for going in theaccount. You will be credited in a week.” The player is heard saying“lovely” in reply, although the audio was distorted to conceal the identityof the player. Al Jazeera claims to have approached the said player, whoclaimed that the conversation didn’t take place and that the call recordingwas “fabricated”.
The documentary also revealed pictures of Umar Akmal meeting a ‘D-Company’associate in the hotel lobby on the night of the fix in the thirdPakistan-England Test in Dubai. Akmal and the ‘D-Company’ associate arethen photographed with a second man in the hotel lobby, with whom Akmalshakes hands and is seen inspecting a bag. The photographs, however, do notshow Akmal leaving the lobby with the bag.
Akmal, in June this year, was summoned by Pakistan Cricket Board’santi-corruption unit after he made claims that he was approached to fixmatches in the Hong Kong Super Sixes, Pakistan’s series against SouthAfrica in the UAE, and the 2015 World Cup.
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Akmal had said that he was first approached during his second stint in HongKong, and was offered as much as USD 200,000 to play two dot balls. He alsoreported being approached for Pakistan’s group game against India in the2015 World Cup in one of many approaches before matches against India.
The documentary claims that Munawar successfully predicted 25 out of 26outcomes; in the one he couldn’t, Munawar missed the mark by a solitary run.
