Title: Mazhar Majeed takes £10,000 down payment for spot fixing

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Mazhar Majeed takes £10,000 down payment for spot fixing at Lords/nMazhar Majeed takes £10,000 down payment for spot fixing at Lords. WAHAB RIAZ the RUDEST and ARROGANT DEBUTANT in cricket history takes the money from Mazhar Majeed./nBritish police said they had arrested a man on suspicion on conspiracy to defraud bookmakers following newspaper allegations of match-fixing in the ongoing cricket Test between England and Pakistan./nThe News of the World alleged that some members of the Pakistan team were involved in a scam in the fourth and final Test at Lord's./n"Following information received from the News of the World we have arrested a 35-year old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers," a spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police told AFP./nNews of the World, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, alleged that two Pakistan bowlers delivered three blatant no-balls./nThe weekly tabloid said it gave 150,000 pounds to a middle man who correctly told them in advance precisely when the deliveries would be bowled./nThe newspaper published images and dialogue from the encounter and a picture of what it said was one of the promised no-balls on Friday./nIt also ran a photograph of Pakistan captain Salman Butt standing with the man they claimed was the middleman, and one of their reporters./nPakistan's team manager Yawar Saeed told Sky News television the allegations were being investigated./nHe was cited as saying that none of his players had been arrested and the Test would continue Sunday as planned./nThe newspaper claimed they had posed as front men for an Asian gambling cartel, paying 10,000 pounds to the alleged fixer as an upfront deposit./nThey met again on Wednesday in a west London hotel room to hand over the rest of the money as their "entry ticket" into what they claimed was a "huge betting syndicate"./nThey claimed the middle man then correctly predicted when the no-balls would be bowled./nPakistan collapsed spectacularly yet again in the series as England closed in on an innings victory on Saturday.