Karachi: Former chief Shahid Afridi on Sunday said that he didn't blow the whistle on the spot-fixing outrage that shook world cricket amid Pakistan's voyage through England in 2010.
Having examined in insight concerning the spot-fixing outrage in his collection of memoirs Game Changer, Afridi demanded he didn't pass on the data or messages to the newspaper News of the World which inevitably broke the story.
Document picture of Shahid Afridi. ReutersFile picture of Shahid Afridi. Reuters
"These players (Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir) still feel that Lala (Afridi) blew the whistle about them to the paper that isn't valid. It was one of my companions in England who passed on the data without educating me and even after that the paper completed its own examination and sting task to affirm and trap the players," Afridi said on a news channel.
Afridi said his previous partner Abdul Razzaq had first discussed the contribution of certain players with fixers when the group was playing the World T20 in West Indies in 2010.
"Razzaq continued letting me know after one match against Sri Lanka that he had questions about Salman Butt however I didn't trust him around then. I said they resemble our more youthful siblings. Later on as destiny would have it a harmed portable which went to an auto shop and whose proprietor knew my companion in England uncovered messages that amazed me and made me presume that these players were undoubtedly spot-fixing matches," he said.
Afridi, who resigned from global cricket in 2016, said he was harmed and disillusioned when Butt's association in the outrage was affirmed as he preferred him a great deal.
He likewise kept up when he initially observed the messages about Butt, Asif and Aamir, he couldn't rest for couple of days and did not have the boldness to impart it to Razzaq who acknowledged something wasn't right.
Inquired as to why he didn't go up against Butt and different players about the messages, Afridi said he was let somewhere around the response of the group the board including Waqar Younis and Yawar Saeed when he initially demonstrated to them the messages.
"It was disillusioning for me. My first employment was to educate the administration, I did that they said 'beta kya karsakta hai abdominal muscle (child, what we can do now)'. That is likewise why I surrendered Test cricket and the captaincy and returned home."
He surrendered that the administration tried to caution the players not to get or combine with suspicious characters like Mazhar Majeed who was likewise in the end imprisoned for his job in the spot-fixing embarrassment.
Afridi likewise uncovered why he had upheld the rebound of Aamir to the Pakistan group after he finished his boycott.
"At the point when the 'Updates on the World' broke the story and I had come back to England for the restricted over matches, I stood up to the three players and instructed them to concede in the event that they had done it as we could support them. Butt continued denying and even made vow he had done nothing incorrectly. Interestingly, the first occasion when I stood up to Aamir he came to me and conceded he had committed a major error. He additionally admitted in court," Afridi said.
Afridi additionally rehashed his remarks about Javed Miandad and Waqar Younis which he made in his book.
"Despite everything I have a ton of regard for both as players. In any case, it isn't vital that a major player can be a decent mentor and it connected to both. Waqar changed subsequent to getting to be skipper and he had an alternate identity for the most exceedingly terrible in the wake of getting to be mentor.
"He used to meddle in all things and endeavored to manage terms. He even used to give me bits of paper before we went onto the field as who to bowl, when and where to set handling. As chief this was irritating for me."
He additionally said that Waqar endeavored to spread gossipy tidbits about him in the group and there was a great deal of slandering.
Afridi said Miandad had a propensity for getting associated with tussle with players.
"The reason we rate Bob Woolmer very is he gave us space and never got associated with any tussle with the players.
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