LAHORE – Umar Akmal lands in hot water over the Al Jazeera documentary onmatch fixing.
The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) anti-corruption unit (ACU) hasapproached cricketer Umar Akmal to record his statement regarding a recentAl Jazeera documentary on corruption in cricket, in which he was shown tomeet an alleged match-fixer’s associate.
In the documentary released on Sunday, Akmal – who is currently out of thenational team – was photographed “receiving and peering into a bagallegedly given to him” by the associate of a man named Aneel Munawar,though the photographs did not show whether Akmal had left with the bag.
PCB’s chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed Wednesday revealed that Akmalhad been contacted on the matter, and that he had agreed to appear beforethe ACU once he was free from his domestic cricketing commitments.