Mohammad Aamer, Mazhar Majeed Confess to Spot Fixing in England

In a startling relevation, it would appear that the young Pakistan bowler has broke his own defense by confessing that he was indeed guilty of spot fixing, the scandal that brought cricket to its knees last year on Pakistan’s tour of England.

Mohammad Aamer

From the confessional statements apparently submitted by the eighteen year old fast bowler as well as that of the player agent cum bookie, Mazhar Majeed, holds he first admission of guilt on the part of the duo. By the same token, fellow Pakistan cricketers, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, have apparently not taken a stance yet on how they will stand as far as corruption charges in the UK are concerned.

Butt, Asif and Aamer were declared guilty by the ICC Anti Corruption Tribunal and handed bans of varying degrees with a beginning starting ban of five years. Through the whole time of their defense and indeed Pakistan’s trouble stay in England since the scandal broke out during the Lord’s Test, the trio individually maintained their innocence and that Pakistan had been wrongly framed.

The now defunct News of the World tabloid broke into the open the sting operation they conducted with Mazhar who was able to prove without doubt that the players would bowl no balls at the designated moments as predetermined in collusion. Furthermore, his arrogance turned into a problem for the Pakistan cricketers who found it difficult to wriggle out of what seemed like rather nailing evidence.

However, the Pakistan cricketers maintained that they were above board even as Scotland Yard carried on their own investigations. The ICC took its own time as well and eventually bringing down the punishment on the tainted trio even though the three Pakistan cricketers and their lawyers accused the ICC of having already premeditated their decision without hearing through the defense.

Of the three Pakistan cricketers, Mohammad Aamer garnered much of the empathy because of his age and also, of the fact that while Asif has had a chequered career, Salman Butt has not very popular in Pakistan circles. Given the young talent, there was the general conspiracy theory that Aamer had been lured in through lucrative measures or through coercion to go along although the truth could be far worse than that speculated upon. It was even expected at the time that since Aamer was as young as he was at the time of the deviant form of match fixing, he would be the easiest to break and that perhaps his turning approver would spare him more stringent punishment. However, the trio followed their own individual defense and the ICC had their own take, based on the material they had in their possession, that the trio were deserving of time away from the game for the crime committed.

Now in a reversal of the stance that they have shared for the past one year, Aamer is perhaps having a change of heart, realizing how derailed his cricket career stands in light of the scandal and perhaps is hoping that even such a late confession will help him get off leniently although it has to be said that the fact that Aamer took a whole year, if the reports regarding the statements is true, and that his confession comes after he has already been handed out the punishment on his cricket career seems like the moment for that would have already passed him by.