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I am disgusted with Saeed Ajmal.

What a blatant act of match fixing.

Pakistan were crusing until his wicket completely changed the complexion of the game.

There should be an inquiry, or lynching.

A number 11 playing two pull shots in two balls must surely mean that this match was fixed.

No more proof is necessary.

I feel dirty for having watched this.

The ending was obviously staged.

The tension was manufactured.

The result was irritating.

Now all I can do to shed myself of this terrible feeling is to have sex and a seafood dinner.

I suggest you do the same.

I am not really happy with writing this post.

But I figured I should.

In the last few weeks several people, international cricketers, professional cricketers and cricket administracrats, have contacted me about the topic of match fixing.

All of them believe that match fixing is happening again.

From the top level of cricket down.

These people gave me games that they believe have been fixed.

For many reasons I can’t give you the games, but so far I haven’t seen one game that was given to me that proved beyond my reason of doubt that they were thrown.

I put some down to inconsistency, some down to shitting yourself in pressure some down to the fact that modern captaincy is about as impressive as the film Crank.

No matter what I said to some of these people they still believed that the fix was in.

It doesn’t really matter that I don’t believe match fixing is happening, it matters that players and officials inside the game do believe.

Unfortunately, and predictably, no one wants to come forward.

And it is a shame because even if some obscure player came forward it would get the issue back in the open.  Not these are obscure players, and from what I can tell this is a belief that is spreading throughout many players.

Last time match fixing came around it was about the time one day cricket went really took hold, funny that now 2020 is taking over people think match fixing is back.

Just a few notes on this post:

This isn’t a piss take.

I will never name anyone involved, you can guess if you want, but trust me you won’t get close.

EDIT: By match fix, i did also mean fancy fix. That is the more common allegation, however, match fixing was also mentioned regularly.