A decade after Lord's scandal, match-fixing still haunts Pakistan cricket.

KARACHI -- When Mohammad Amir bowled a no-ball against England on the opening day of the 2010 Test at Lord's, no one could have imagined his long stride past the crease marked the first step in a historic fixing scandal. Two days later it was revealed that three noballs -- two by Amir, and one by his pace partner Mohammad Asif -- had been part of a shady betting deal. Pakistan's captain Salman Butt had orchestrated the deliberate no balls in return for money offered by undercover journalist Mazhar Majeed posing as a bookmaker. The...

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