Former Pakistani cricketer Mudassar Nazar spoke about the match-fixing cloud in cricket and said that every time his team lost a match to India, people back home thought the match was fixed. Match fixing has increasingly come to haunt Pakistan in this part of the 21st century, with players such as Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif serving bans for their involvement in it. “I think if you look at the Pakistan team in the 1990s, they were as good as Australia in the 1990s in terms of talent. But it was purely a fear factor to lose the match, and I will be a little bit scared to to lose the match.” controversial here. The controversy is behind match fixing. There was a lot of pressure on the Pakistan team because every time they lost a match, people thought the match was in doubt, the match was fixed.”
“No one was willing to accept that they actually lost to a better team. So sometime in the early 1990s I was part of that team that was afraid of losing the match, and that was entirely due to match fixing or the fear for danger.” people who believed that the match was fixed,” Nazar said on the sidelines of the conclave organized in Ajman (UAE) to celebrate the 100th episode of the international cricket talk show – predicting cricket.
Nazar, who played 76 Tests and 122 ODIs for Pakistan from 1976 to 1989, also believes the match-fixing saga has taken a toll on the team's performances, which have seen a sharp decline across all formats in the past year and a half.
“You add another factor to that, which is the factor of playing against India. No Pakistani, no Indian would want to lose this match. We saw that in Sharjah and that's why it was such a big event – India vs Pakistan – no one.” will lose to each other. That wasn't the case in cricket, but probably in the general public.”
“There was a lot of pressure there. Unfortunately, the match-fixing saga took its toll on the Pakistan team.”
Do you think Pakistan could have recruited a psychologist to deal with the added pressure?
“I have never seen a psychologist win a cricket match. Many teams employ psychologists around the world. But it has never worked.”
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