Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has urged Ricky Ponting and Nathan Bracken to quickly clear their names over the match-fixing allegations after alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed had claimed that he had access to both the players.
An ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) officer has rubbished alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed's claim that Australian cricketers were involved in match-fixing, saying the world body had "no evidence" of any wrongdoings carried out by the Aussies.
Pakistan's outcast stumper Zulqarnain Haider, on Tuesday, demanded that authorities check the assets of all the players, who were named by alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed during his conversation with an undercover reporter.
Top Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh, on Tuesday, rubbished the reported claims of a London-based bookie Mazhar Majeed that he had "access" to them, saying that they had never even met him.
Ricky Ponting's manager has dismissed alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed's claims of having access to the former Australian captain, while pacer Nathan Bracken has threatened legal action after his name also cropped up in the spot-fixing trial in London.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit has failed to keep cricket clean and blamed the taskforce for not policing the sport properly.
Pakistan's former captain Shahid Afridi has claimed that jailed bookie Mazhar Majeed tried approaching him several times but he kept the players' agent at arm's length as he suspected him of being involved in betting.
Timeline of the spot-fixing scandal that led to the conviction of Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif in the Southwark Crown Court in London on Tuesday.
Alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed's claim that the Australians were the biggest offenders of corruption in cricket is far from true but it has put every player under suspicion, feels ACA chief executive Paul Marsh.
The spot-fixing trial in London has thrown up Australian names and a stunned Cricket Australia said the claims made by the alleged bookie seem "outlandish" as had there been any truth in them, CA would have known and acted.
The International Cricket Council had concerns about the presence of London bookie Mazhar Majeed, who was at the centre of the spot-fixing scandal that rocked world cricket two months ago, during the Sydney Test early this year but failed to inform Cricket Australia about it, according to a report on Monday.
Pakistan and its media famously blame India for almost anything that goes wrong in their country
Suspicions that the Australia-Pakistan Sydney Test could have been fixed, is bound to get stronger with a newspaper in Melbourne splashing a picture of some Pakistani cricketers with alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed, who is at the center of a spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the game.
In a sensational turn to the spot-fixing scam, the three Pakistani cricketers - Salman Butt, Mohammed Aamir and Mohammed Asif - on Saturday admitted that they took money from bookie Mazhar Majeed but came out with a bizarre defence that it was for for some sponsorship contracts.
The Pakistani media has blamed Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the match fixing scandal and says that India wants to oust Pakistan from international cricket.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting on Monday said if the match-fixing slur on his team's Sydney Test win over Pakistan is proved right, all individual milestones by his players in that game would be "tainted".
Alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed's links with the Pakistan cricket team seem to run quite deep as his brother Azhar had also acted as an agent for many former and current cricketers of the country.
London-based bookie Mazhar Majeed claims to have almost the entire Pakistan cricket team in his pocket but the one man the alleged match-fixer could never get a hold on is the temperamental Shahid Afridi.
Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi has urged the Central Bureau of Investigation to look into claims of an Indian bookmaker's role in the latest match-fixing episode to hit cricket.
More video footage which could implicate two new players of the Pakistan cricket team in allegations of corruption was released by British tabloid News of the World' on Sunday.
Bookie Mazhar Majeed, at the centre of the Pakistan match-fixing scam, was released on bail without charge on Monday following his arrest on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers.
Bookie Mazhar Majeed, who was arrested for alleged 'spot-fixing' in the fourth and final Test between England Pakistan at Lord's, has claimed that the result of the Sydney Test between Australia and Pakistan in January was rigged.
A defiant Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt on Sunday refused to step down from his post despite his name cropping up in a 'spot-fixing' scandal that has plunged the game into a crisis.
Says he knew of SMS exchanges between bookmaker and players before the scam broke out
The spot-fixing scandal happened in August 2010 during Pakistan's tour of England and then captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were banned by the ICC for their involvement.
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