What the hell is going on.......

Hope you all had a great time brother. Fantastic weather for it as well

Turns out that the first test had dodgy stuff going on as well, I recon if they dug deep enough they would find a lot more matches involving Pakistan doing dodgy things which would ultimately give the powers to be a good enough excuse to ban the country from international cricket for about a decade! Shame really because when their not assisting the spead betters or trying to cheat they are actually decent players!

Sounds a good idea saying this kind of 'spot' betting should be banned, but that would be impossible and unenforcable. Anyone can open a book about anything - in a pub, in an online betting community, in a 'betting club' set up in the Far East or on the Indian subcontinent...all the laws and punishments in the world won't stop people doing that or, in consequence, attempting to rig the outcome accordingly.

What organisations such as the ICC need to be doing is asking why the cricket authorities in Pakistan appear to be so ineffective in preventing their players from becoming involved or implicated in this kind of thing.

Before you start with that kind of thing, you might want to look at the figures for the number of people in Pakistan who have been a victim to 'other things they turn a blind eye to'.

To be blunt, if I were a betting man, I'd bet that you know next to nothing about Pakistan.

I was at Lord's for the final day of the first SoC test when Pakistan, needing a seemingly impossible 439 to win were 186-2 and looking very likely to get that total. Enter incredible batting collapse and Marcus North grabbing six wickets with a load of dobbers, including Boom-Boom Afridi who threw his bat at all four balls he faced.

My friends and I thought it was a very bizarre way to lose a cricket match and put it down to naivety, immaturity and just plain rank bad batting. Now we are all e-mailing each other to ask if it could possibly have been a thrown Test match.

Very unlikely, but now suspicion has been placed on the entire team every result is questioned; and it just seemed so unlikely for them to lose the wickets in the manner they did.