The moment the Pakistan cricket team spot fixing scandal arose, it just did not let the anger of the citizens of the world to provoke but also some former cricketers had their word over this situation. Michael Vaughn, ex-English cricketer, stated that after such an incident no one will want to play with Pakistan, and specially England. As people will always be in a flick that there is something wrong with the game, as the two One Days ahead are already fixed.

All these questions are leading to possible answers of a life time ban on the Pakistani players involved in the fixing. The players that can be rigged in the ban are, Captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.

After these allegations, the future One Day matches to be played with England are now questioned, since the credibility of the whole series is on the brink of collapsing. Vaughn was very stern on his statement, saying that this is a good opportunity for the board to clean up the game of cricket, and throw such things out of the game. The best way to prove an example is to certify a life time ban on the players involved in this scandal.

It is now a shameful time for the cricketing world, and once more the shame comes from the old match fixing demon. Its been reported that there was alleged match fixing in the Pakistan Vs England test match in UK. This time the Pakistan cricket team has found itself under a mountain of controversy, and may be it is true.

The trouble has come up from the Lord’s Test, where the Britons beat the host by a massive 354 runs. But this time there is a new exposure in the terms of match fixing, ’spot fixing’ and this is what the Pakistani players are blamed for.

The Scotland investigators had come to know, that Pakistan was being involved in a match fixing scenario a month ago, between the 29th of July and the 1st of August. Some intelligence data shows that there was a match fixing activity going on within a match at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. One of the London’s newspapers quoted that, an informer has credible information of the match fixing with Pakistan.

The players who are cornered in the match fixing scandal are, pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, who are blamed for spot fixing in the Lord’s Test. The person behind the fixing is Mazhar Majeed, a bookie who had told the pacers to bowl deliberate no balls during the match.

Pakistan vs England: In an Exciting test match on day 3 of the Pakistan vs England battle, England seems to be on a better and more commanding position as a result of Eoin Morgan’s Century. Morgan scored 130 before falling to Mohammad Asif leg before wicket.

Mohammad Asif was the single line of hope for the Pakistani team with 5 wickets under his belt. For England Paul Collingwood scored 82 runs which really helped England with valuable runs.

England were all bowled out for 354 runs in their first innings and Pakistan could manage just 182 runs on the board.
England have started their second innings and are 3 wickets down already, but they look in a commanding position.

England : 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Eoin Morgan, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steven Finn.

Pakistan : 1 Salman Butt (capt), 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Azhar Ali, 4 Umar Amin, 5 Umar Akmal, 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Kamran Akmal (wk), 8 Mohammad Aamer, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Danish Kaneria, 11 Mohammad Asif.

England has commenced the first cricket test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge on the 29th of July 2010. The game started at 10.30 GMT (04.00PM Indian Standard Time). England has won four of its last five tests and Pakistan has won only one of its last five tests.

As of now, England are 52/1, with Andrew Strauss and Johnathan Trot on the pitch. England had a wobbly start but Strauss is a firm batsman, everything for the moment looks calm from England’s point of view. A.N. Cook’s wicket was plucked soon before he could launch himself to score some runs. Mohammad Amir took his wicket when Cook was batting on 8 runs.

England have had a good season till now, and Pakistan has returned from Australia after a horrible loss against the Australians. England and Pakistan are scheduled to play four tests and five one day in England.