Had 10 match-fixers with me in Pak team: Shoaib

New Delhi
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar said he was surrounded by match-fixers in the national team during his playing days. In comments made on a television show, Shoaib said he felt he was playing against “21 players — 11 theirs and 10 ours”. Akhtar was talking about the 2010 spot-fixing scandal which resulted in then Pakistan captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir getting lengthy bans. “I was always of the belief that I can never cheat Pakistan, no match-fixing. I was surrounded by match-fixers,” Akhtar said on the show Rewind With Samina Peerzada. “I was playing against 21 people — 11 theirs and 10 ours. Who knows who the match-fixer was? There was so much match-fixing. Mohammad Asif told me which all matches they had fixed and how they did it.”

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