Don King backs down cricket prediction..

At the request of Pakistan cricket board of control, promoter Don King has backed off his earlier guarantee of a "lights-out, no-contest, 20 wicket drubbing" of the USA's cricket team in this weekend's test match encounter at Lords. "When I said that Pakistan would make short work of the USA and wrap the test up well inside three days, I failed to take into account American cricket's stellar performances to date, there world-record breaking partnerships in the lower order, and the fact that fans are paying to see a good, clean, uncorrupt, back-and-forth, ding-dong five day test match during which many, many opportunites for spread betting will be available," Mr. King said. "I promise that, after many surprising no balls at strange times, some inexplicably shocking shot selction from both teams and some outbreaks of the dropsies when key wickets are up for grabs, this will be a fulfilling, enjoyable test match, no matter who wins." Mr. King is expected to hold yet another press conference this Friday to revise his new promise that the "match will continue for the duration of the five days, at which point a series of wides and no-balls will deliver a famous and totally unexpected win to the USA."

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it is now crystal clear Pakistani cricket is hopelessly corrupt. Most likely every result on the sub-continent is jacked up by some betting scam or another. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/aug/29/pakistan-betting-scandal-police-players

"...Majeed, a wealthy 35-year-old Surrey-based businessman, had told the paper that he could arrange such stunts in return for payment. He was shown, in undercover footage, counting eight piles of £50 notes, totalling £140,000, on a West End hotel table. The paper said it had given him a further £10,000 as an up-front deposit, and the rest of the money was an "entry ticket" to an existing scam based in India.

Majeed told the paper: "I am going to give you three no-balls to prove to you firstly that this is what's happening. They've all been organised, OK? This is exactly what is going to happen, you're going to see these things happen. I'm telling you – if you play this right, you're going to make a lot of money, believe me."

According to the News of the World, he also boasted that matches had been fixed and that Pakistan were prepared to lose two of their forthcoming one-day international matches against England, starting next month. He claimed to have opened Swiss and English bank accounts for some of the players, that he laundered betting money through the non-league football club Croydon FC, which he owns, and that gamblers had made $1.3m (£836,000) betting on the outcome of a Test match that Pakistan unexpectedly lost to Australia in Sydney in January. He was taped saying: "I've been doing it with them, the Pakistani team, for two and a half years and we've made masses and masses of money..."


The real scandal though is nothing will be done about it, because all the money in cricket is in the sub-continent and they have the whip hand. Cricket as a game is now simply totally corrupt - corrupt due to matcg fixing in the sub-continent, and corrupt because the ICC won't do anything about it - effectively condoning it.