Team-mates were trying to fix almost every match: Yasir Hameed

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Team-mates were trying to fix almost every match: Yasir Hameed

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05 September,2010 05:47 am

Pakistan cricket team further bogs down in the quagmire of match fixing as News of the World releases another secretly made video of Pakistani batsman Yasir Hameed.In the video Hameed is shown having a tete-a-tete with the reporter posing as a layman, telling him that some of his colleagues were regularly cheating.Yasir Hameed is quoted as saying: It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose.Yasir Hameed, has issued a denial of allegations in the News of the World that he turned down a bookmaker's offer to help fix a Test for 100,000. Yasir further quoted almost every match has been fixed and slammed his team-mates' actions. They've been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks, he reportedly told the newspaper. They were doing it [fixing] in almost every match. God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages, he was quoted as saying. It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose. When contacted, Yasir Hameed has denied all claims made by the newspaper and refuted that he had any conversation to the newspaper.I have never spoken to the NOTW and I haven't said anything like this, he said. I have been fully concentrating on my career and nothing else, he said.