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Is Sharjeel Khan innocent of fixing during PSL?

Is Sharjeel Khan innocent of fixing during PSL?


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Abdullah719

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Sharjeel has already been found guilty and been handed a ban.

However, he has claimed in a press conference that he is innocent and only confessed under duress.

Is there any weight to his claims or is he guilty?
 
To be honest, we can’t say he is guilty or whether he is not guilty as there hasn’t been any solid evidence released.

I wouldn’t be surprised though if he was innocent and got forced to confess.
 
what other choice he has left but to Lie for next few more years until his ban will be lifted. Salman But and Asif lied the same for 5 years and but confessed after to resume playing domestic. They are caught red handed and ICC has all the necessary proofs. We should not expect them to be speaking truth. The players who could cheat the country will never speak truth.
 
He is not innocent and he is definitely involved in some dodgey acts.

But, the verdict against him was extremely harsh, vindictive, one-sided and a sacrifice to show some credibility. Besides, the trial process was a joke - few of the highest beneficiaries from PCB read a judgement that satisfies their facilitators. This sort of shallow things won’t have been so easy in Canada or UK - I can bet, in Canadian Federal Court, on first day those three gentlemen would have been disqualified (not saying they are dishonest, but every judiciary system has some common standards).

As I said many times, a hefty fine, demotion in central contract and a deferred ban for 5 or even 10 years (that’s 2nd slip in that period - straight ban) was more than enough. The guy is paying heavily for being born & raised in a small town and not representing PAK’s dominating ethnic group. If he is given such punishment based on the evidence, then Wahab Riaz should have been flying much much higher ...
 
Pretty simple question. Someone who is truly innocent but is falsely accussed will not stay quite at any stage.
 
For all those claiming it is a PCB plot and the verdict was harsh and the judges weren't independent: (i) why was Sharjeel given such a light sentence and (ii) why did the PCB's appeal fail?
 
What concerns me is the evidence regarding the 2 dot balls that Sharjeel played.
 
What concerns me is the evidence regarding the 2 dot balls that Sharjeel played.

What was the evidence supporting his ban? I haven’t done much reading on sharjeels case but from the little I have read I didn’t find a concrete reason why he was banned.

A lot of people on the forum have said that he was unfairly banned but I don’t know enough to make a judgement.
 
To be honest, we can’t say he is guilty or whether he is not guilty as there hasn’t been any solid evidence released.

I wouldn’t be surprised though if he was innocent and got forced to confess.
Masha Allah bohot aala post kiya hai aap ne.
 
We will never know until PCB releases the evidence which they claim to have
 
To me it seems like he knowingly met with a bookie in order to discuss fixing. That makes him not innocent in my eyes.

He could have not actually fixed in terms of playing dot balls and not gone through with the actual fix. But I think he was probably guilty. He was one our promising players, the PCB isn't going to attempt to try and get him banned if they weren't pretty sure he was guilty.

Could someone clear up though what he was forced to confess? What did he confess? The actual fixing, or just the meeting of the bookies? And is he maintaining that both aren't true, or just the actual fixing but he did indeed meet with the bookie.
 
Well I have been defending him for a while now, however I like to change my views on this. He is indeed guilty of some sort of mischief, and its not even a very long ban, 2 years for his supposed breach of conduct, he has been let off easy. I think he should consider himself lucky this is just a parking ticket compared to what Amir Asif and Butt got
 
Whatever it is , Pakistan need the best ODI batsman to be in reckon with 2019 WC. Fakhar's novelty factor will soon subside
 
Whatever it is , Pakistan need the best ODI batsman to be in reckon with 2019 WC. Fakhar's novelty factor will soon subside

There is much more to Fakhar then you see and believe.
 
I think this might've happened, Total speculation below:

1) Sharjeel (during when he wasn't part of Pakistan XI) is introduced to a Shady Spot fixing Individual.
2) Said shady person Asks him for a 'favor' in exchange for some benefit during a low key event.
3) This goes on for a while
4) Sharjeel Performs in PSL1 & starts making the rounds in Intl cricket and also for the national team. UK county picks him up as well etc etc
5) The shady person now wants a bigger piece of the pie after seeing all this escalation. Asks Sharjeel to introduce more people.
5) Sharjeel disagrees as this could end his career (if caught), gets threatened (that whole fiasco) and gives in later by introducing fellow colleagues.
6) Fellow colleagues listen patiently, some refuse while others show interest.
7) The circuit now becomes a bit bigger and more people are involved and are aware of this.
8) Somebody opens his mouth and PCB get a sniff of things!
9) PCB use their connections to observe a 'fix' during that PSL game and now have a working scenario to prosecute.
10) Players are suspended, PCB starts their investigation on the matter, working their way right to the bottom of this (The committee uses PR, personal player-management links etc etc) I know people might say this was a totally wrong method of handling things but what can you expect from PCB :facepalm:
11) Somebody (fellow colleague) cracks under pressure and spills everything to the committee.
12) PCB double confirm the story from others, offering them little bans, in exchange of double checking the entire story.
13) Once PCB gets the whole thing from multiple sources they hand out the ban. The only thing they can't prove is that 2 dot balls since it's nearly impossible to quantify if there was any malicious intent in the way Sharjeel played those.

Now does the Ban make sense on Sharjeel, damn right it does!! I'll go on and say that he litereally got off easy as any other sensible board would've banned him for life! In my book the above scenario looks extremely guilt.
 
Although I can understand all law and tribunal information is not to be shared with the public - I do think the PCB is hiding important facts about case.

However, this does not excuse Sharjeel at all as I believe he is with high probably cause to be guilty.
 
What concerns me is the evidence regarding the 2 dot balls that Sharjeel played.

Well what concerns you about it? :13:

The fact that there is or not is such evidence or or its authenticity/reliability?
 
Well what concerns you about it? :13:

The fact that there is or not is such evidence or or its authenticity/reliability?

Its relevance as in odds of that being due to something sinister.
 
I voted he's guilty. Before he was charged I thought he was innocent but that was just me being in denial. Cricket players do not randomly just go and meet fans. Also what are the chances of predicting which balls would be dot balls and he didn't hit the balls that were supposed to be the dots with great power.
 
Is it really ethical to pass judgment on on this in public forum?

You could have asked opinions but you want judgment on the matter that is still under wraps regarding evidence.
 
I think he is. Too many red flags especially when he came out in media few years back saying someone was trying to black mail him. It's sad but the entire system is corrupt and breeds corruption from top to bottom.
 
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