Pakistani cricket team in England in 2010
| Pakistan cricket team in England in 2010 | |||
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| Pakistan | England | ||
| Dates | 29 July – 22 September 2010 | ||
| Captains |
Salman Butt (Tests) Shahid Afridi (ODIs & T20Is) |
Andrew Strauss (Tests and ODIs) Paul Collingwood (T20Is) |
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| Test series | |||
| Result | England won the 4-match series 3–1 | ||
| Most runs | Umar Akmal (184) | Jonathan Trott (404) | |
| Most wickets | Mohammad Amir (19) | James Anderson (23) | |
| Player of the series | Mohammad Amir (Pak), Jonathan Trott (Eng) | ||
| One Day International series | |||
| Results | England won the 5-match series 3–2 | ||
| Most runs | Kamran Akmal (201) | Andrew Strauss (317) | |
| Most wickets | Umar Gul (12) |
Graeme Swann (11) Stuart Broad (11) |
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| Player of the series | Andrew Strauss (Eng) | ||
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | England won the 2-match series 2–0 | ||
| Most runs | Umar Akmal (52) | Eoin Morgan (56) | |
| Most wickets |
Shoaib Akhtar (3) Shahid Afridi (3) |
Tim Bresnan (4) Graeme Swann (4) |
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The Pakistan cricket team toured England from 29 July to 22 September 2010. The tour consisted of four Tests, two Twenty20s (T20) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs).
After being put into bat by Pakistan, England were reduced to 102 for 7 on the second day.Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad then put on a world record score for the eighth wicket with a partnership of 332.
On the third day of the 4th Test, British newspaper News of the World published a story with allegations that an agent loosely affiliated with some of the Pakistani players (later identified as Mazhar Majeed) had accepted a £150,000 (US$232,665) bribe from undercover reporters for information that two Pakistani bowlers (Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir) would deliberately deliver no balls at specific points during the match, information which could be used by gamblers to make wagers with inside information (a process known as spot-fixing, compared with match fixing to predetermine a match result).
In the video posted by News of the World, Majeed, counting out the bribe money, predicted that Amir would be Pakistan's bowler for the third over, and that the first ball of that over would be a no-ball delivery. Amir did bowl the third over, and on his first delivery from the over, bowled a no-ball delivery. Commentary described the delivery as a "massive overstep", a good half-metre beyond the popping crease following the television replay of the delivery. Majeed also predicted that the sixth delivery of the tenth over would be a no-ball, and the ball, delivered by Asif, was also a no-ball delivery.
As a result of the allegations and video posted by News of the World, Scotland Yard announced during the evening that they had arrested Majeed on charges of suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers. Two days later, after the Test match had completed, three more arrests were made (two unidentified men and an unidentified woman) on money laundering charges in connection with the allegations. Police also seized the cell phones of Asif, Amir, and Salman Butt as part of their investigations.
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