In a new twist to the match-fixing row on Sunday, even as Pakistani batsman Yasir Hameed was reported alleging that his colleagues tried to fix “almost every match” during the team's disastrous tour of Australia last year, he gave an affidavit to the Pakistan High Commission denying making the allegation and claiming that he had been framed.
In a secretly filmed conversation at a hotel, Hameed was shown sipping wine and telling an undercover reporter of News of the World: “They [his teammates] were doing it [fixing] in almost every match…Scotland Yard was after them for ages.”
Hameed, who has been in and out of the Pakistani team, also claimed that his career had suffered because he refused to fix games.
Summoned to High Commission
Within hours, he was summoned to the High Commission; and after a meeting with High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan and other officials, his legal adviser read out what, he said, was an affidavit given by Hameed denying ever talking to the tabloid newspaper.
Hameed claimed that he was having dinner with a friend when he was approached by a man who introduced himself as Abid Khan and offered him a sponsorship deal worth £50,000.
