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The 2010 edition of the Ashes series between Australia and England will be played from November this year. The first Test match will be played in November at Brisbane. Already, it has been announced that the sale of tickets for the premier Test cricket series in the world has picked up so well, that the chances of the same getting booked fully much before the first ball is bowled are rather high.

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The International Cricket Council has finally moved to suspend the trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif from international cricket under the Anti-Corruption Code. The three have allegedly been accused of being involved in match-fixing by a British tabloid and with a video as evidence, the ICC has had no option but to suspend them.

You can find the allegedly fixed Lord’s Test match between English and Pakistan here.

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The three Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, have been dropped from the Pakistani side for the rest of the tour of England. However, according to the team manager, Yawar Saeed, the troika of Butt, Asif and Amir were not suspended from the side.

Somerset will play Pakistan in a warm-up game at Taunton and you can follow the Somerset-Pakistan game on Cricinfo.

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The three beleaguered Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, said to be involved in the match-fixing scandal in the Lord’s Test match, reached London on Wednesday. They will now meet the Pakistan cricket board chairman, Ejaz Butt, before being questioned by the Scotland Yard.

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An angry Kevin Pietersen lashed out at the English selectors for dropping him from the ODIs and the T20I squads of England against Pakistan. Even before he was sacked, Pietersen tweeted, “Done for rest of summer!! Man of the World Cup T20 and dropped from the T20 side too. Its a f**k up!!”, something that he removed only minutes later.

Follow Pakistan’s tour of England here.

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Shane Watson, the Australian all-rounder has said that he was shocked by the match-fixing allegations levelled against some of the Pakistani cricketers. Watson, who had himself been approached twice by illegal bookmakers during the previous edition of the Ashes in 2009, said that he was saddened by the revelations that some of the Pakistani cricketers were involved.

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Suneer Chowdhary

When an international bowler sends down a no-ball as big as what Mohammad Amir did on the first day of the Lord’s Test match between England and Pakistan, he may never be looked at with the same minor irritation that a cricket fan usually shrugs off such an indiscretion. Rather sadly for Suraj Randiv and Tillakaratne Dilshan, the Virender Sehwag-controversy could have been advertently avoided had that game been played after the Lord’s Test match – not too many bowlers would dare bowling deliberate no-balls any more after what happened at Lord’s.

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It was a day of gloom for Pakistan on the fourth day of the fourth Test match against England at Lord’s and for more reasons than one.

They were probably lucky that the match went on as planned and was not cancelled after the spot-fixing allegations against Pakistan rocked the cricketing world overnight. However, the rest of the Pakistani batting collapsed under overcast weather and mood at Lord’s to hand England over an easy win by an innings and 225 runs and a 3-1 series win against Pakistan.

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