A tragedy for cricket

"Pakistan have been this way before — their Qayyum Inquiry into match-fixing was damning when it was published in the summer of 2000 — but that was in a time of peace in the country," writes Scyld Berry in the Telegraph on Sunday after spot-fixing allegations rocked the Lord's Test. "This latest incident has occurred when the country’s cricket team can only play abroad because of the security situation, and only makes a sad situation tragic."

Mohammad Amir is one of the bowlers at the centre of the controversy. He took a six-for in the Lord's Test and spoke to Amir Rashid on how he had to fight a life-threatening illness before making it big as a Test cricketer.

"I got ill with the dengue virus in Malaysia before the 2008 Under-19 World Cup when I was 15," he said. "I was in a very bad condition, it was a death situation, the doctors thought I was going to die – it was very bad. I was in hospital for one week and was on 24 drips a day. The doctors were surprised when I came round. When they sent me home they said that for one month I couldn't do anything and just to rest. That time was very bad for me and for my future. I was really scared."