Australia players are being urged to refuse to sign Cricket Australia contracts next year as a row brews over an attempt to snatch 10 per cent of their pay from the Indian Premier League.
Former South Africa and Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer and convicted match-fixer Hansie Cronje were murdered by mafia betting syndicates, former South Africa captain Clive Rice says.
England completed a 2-0 Twenty20 series sweep after Pakistan suffered the embarrassment of being dismissed for 89 at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff to add to their off-field problems.
The Pakistan court hearing into treason allegations against seven cricket players, the country's sports minister and cricket chief, over a 'spot-fixing' scandal, has been adjourned.
Red-faced International Cricket Council sleuths have sent Pakistan keeper Kamran Akmal an official notice that he is under investigation over match-fixing in the Sydney Test.
England paceman Stuart Broad said that he had no sympathy for the Pakistan players engulfed in a match-fixing scandal that has sent shockwaves through the world of cricket.
Suspended Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Aamer may be in line for a more lenient corruption penalty than his older teammates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif.
Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed has denied reports in which he was said to have told an undercover journalist that his teammates were corrupt and had constantly fixed games.
Pakistan one-day international captain Shahid Afridi has apologised for the scandal engulfing his side's tour of England after players are questioned over an alleged betting scam.
Cricket's fight against corruption received the breakthrough it has been craving, with the discovery of cash used in the Pakistan betting sting in the belongings of captain Salman Butt.
Pakistan bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif, currently embroiled in a corruption scandal, have been dropped from the International Cricket Council's annual awards list.
India's batting great Sachin Tendulkar on Friday called for a thorough investigation into Pakistan's spot-fixing scandal, saying the guilty should be punished.
The International Cricket Council said it has charged Pakistan's Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif with various offences under its anti-corruption code.
Graham Onions' hopes of featuring in England's defence of the Ashes in Australia ended when the seam bowler was ruled out for nine months with a back injury.
The decision to drop three players accused of spot-fixing from Pakistan's tour of England tour received a mixed reaction from Pakistani cricketing personalities.
Injured wicketkeeper Brad Haddin will miss Australia's two-Test series in India next month after being left out of a 15-man tour squad named on Thursday.
Australia have handed Phillip Hughes the chance to press his claims for an Ashes berth by naming the swashbuckling opening batsman in the 15-man squad to tour India.
Mark Taylor was unfazed by the latest Pakistani match-fixing scandal and admits he has doubts about the Sydney Test Australia won so remarkably in January.