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- ISBN 9781836800682
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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**Winner of the Cricket Writers’ Club Book of the Year Award 2021**
A revelatory insider account of a global story that sent shockwaves through cricket which still reverberate – the spot-fixing scandal of 2010. Perfect for every cricket fan!
By Nick Greenslade, former deputy sport editor of The Times and The Sunday Times.
The scandal stunned the wider sporting world and confirmed the reputation of the News of the World's Mazher Mahmood as the most controversial news reporter of his generation.
This gripping and forensically researched book:
- Takes the reader through the twists and turns of those fateful days late one August and beyond
- Shines a light on the tradecraft of the News of the World team and how they exposed the criminal scheming of the cricketers and their fixer Mazhar Majeed
- Brings you exclusive views and insights from the international cricketers, commentators, reporters, officials and lawyers involved
- Reveals how deeply fixing had penetrated the Pakistan dressing room, and lifts the lid on the black arts of investigative reporting which would eventually prove Mahmood's undoing
- Benefits from exclusive access to previously unpublished News of the World documents
Discover how the spot-fixing scandal started a stunning chain of events that saw the News of the World shut down, Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir banned and sent to prison and Mahmood himself put behind bars.
Nick Greenslade is a former deputy sport editor of The Sunday Times. He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read history. After a brief career in advertising, he began his career in journalism at The Nation magazine in New York and has also held editorial positions at The Observer and Daily Mail. He has contributed to the New Statesman, Time Out and Private Eye and In These Times in the US. He lives in Kent with his wife and three children.
