Fast bowler Mohammad Amir has confessed to his involvement in spot-fixing during Pakistan's Test series in England last year. The bookie, Mazhar Majeed, who set up the fix, has also confessed in court, according to a private TV channel. The left-arm highly promising cricketer had submitted a confessional statement in a court in London.

Amir and right-arm fast bowler Mohammad Asif were accused by a now closed British tabloid 'News of the World' of deliberately bowling no-balls at specific times during Pakistan's 2010 tour of England under the captaincy of Salman Butt in return for payment from a betting syndicate. The tabloid had also claimed that an agent affiliated with some of the Pakistani players, later identified as Mazhar Majeed, had accepted a bribe from an undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood for information that Amir and Asif would deliver no-balls for bribe at specific points during the match.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2011