# Pakistani cricket team in England in 2010

The Pakistan cricket team toured England from 29 July to 22 September 2010. The tour consisted of four Tests, two Twenty20s (T20) and five One Day Internationals (ODIs).
The series became infamous for the Pakistan cricket spot-fixing scandal during the Fourth Test match at Lord's.
The first Test of the series, at Trent Bridge, was the 900th Test match to be played by England.

## Test series
### First Test

* 29 July – 2 August Scorecard
* England won by 354 runs Trent Bridge, Nottingham Umpires: Asoka De Silva (SL) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: James Anderson (Eng)
* England won the toss and elected to bat.
* Play on Day 2 was reduced due to bad light.
* Eoin Morgan (Eng) scored his maiden Test century.

### Second Test

* 6–10 August Scorecard
* England won by 9 wickets Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Marais Erasmus (SA) Player of the match: Graeme Swann (Eng)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Play on Day 1 was reduced due to bad light.
* Play on Day 2 was delayed by rain and reduced due to bad light.

### Third Test

* 18–22 August Scorecard
* Pakistan won by 4 wickets The Oval, London Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Mohammad Amir (Pak)
* England won the toss and elected to bat.
* Play on day 3 was reduced due to bad light.
* Wahab Riaz (Pak) made his Test debut.

### Fourth Test

* 26–30 August Scorecard
* England won by an innings and 225 runs Lord's, London Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Stuart Broad (Eng)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
* Play on Day 1 was reduced due to rain and bad light.
* Play on Day 3 was reduced due to rain.
After being put into bat by Pakistan, England were reduced to 102 for 7 on the second day. Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad then put on a world record score for the eighth wicket with a partnership of 332.

#### Betting allegations

On the third day of the 4th Test, British newspaper News of the World published a story with allegations that an agent loosely affiliated with some of the Pakistani players (later identified as Mazhar Majeed) had accepted a £150,000 (US$232,665) bribe from undercover reporters for information that two Pakistani bowlers (Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir) would deliberately deliver no-balls at specific points during the match, information which could be used by gamblers to make wagers with inside information (a process known as spot-fixing, compared with match fixing to predetermine a match result).
In the video posted by News of the World, Majeed, counting out the bribe money, predicted that Amir would be Pakistan's bowler for the third over, and that the first ball of that over would be a no-ball delivery. Amir did bowl the third over, and on his first delivery from the over, bowled a no-ball delivery. Commentary described the delivery as a "massive overstep", a good half-metre beyond the popping crease following the television replay of the delivery. Majeed also predicted that the sixth delivery of the tenth over would be a no-ball, and the ball, delivered by Asif, was also a no-ball delivery.
As a result of the allegations and video posted by News of the World, Scotland Yard announced during the evening that they had arrested Majeed on charges of suspicion of conspiracy to defraud bookmakers. Two days later, after the Test match had completed, three more arrests were made (two unidentified men and an unidentified woman) on money laundering charges in connection with the allegations. Police also seized the cell phones of Asif, Amir, and Salman Butt as part of their investigations.
Yawar Saeed, the Pakistan team manager insisted after the conclusion of the test series that the T20 series and the ODI series will be played. He also refused to say that Butt should resign as Test captain.
On 1 November 2011, Asif, Amir and Butt were found guilty for their part in the spot-fixing and were given prison sentences, ranging from six months to 30 months.

## Twenty20 series

Following the betting allegations, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt were eventually dropped from the Twenty20 and One day squads at the players' request. They had not been suspended, and three players would be called up to replace them. This followed several days where the PCB refused to drop or suspend the players from the rest of the tour, even after England requested that the trio sit out the rest of the tour.
On 2 September 2010, after the warm-up List A game between Pakistan and Somerset, the International Cricket Council announced that they had suspended Asif, Amir and Butt under the provision of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Code. The statement from the ICC stated that the three players were charged "under various offenses under Article 2 of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code for Players and Player Support Personnel relating to alleged irregular behavior during, and in relation to, the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's last month".

### 1st T20I

* 5 September Scorecard
| Pakistan 126/4 (20 overs) | v | England 129/5 (17.1 overs) |
| Umar Akmal 35* (30) Graeme Swann 2/14 (4 overs) | | Eoin Morgan 38* (24) Shoaib Akhtar 2/23 (4 overs) |
* England won by 5 wickets Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Umpires: Richard Kettleborough (Eng) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Michael Yardy (Eng)
* England won the toss and elected to field.

### 2nd T20I

* 7 September Scorecard
| Pakistan 89 (18.4 overs) | v | England 90/4 (14 overs) |
| Umar Akmal 17 (13) Tim Bresnan 3/10 (3.4 overs) | | Paul Collingwood 21 (25) Saeed Ajmal 1/13 (3 overs) |
* England won by 6 wickets Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Richard Illingworth (Eng) Player of the match: Tim Bresnan (Eng)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 10 September Scorecard
| England 274/6 (41 overs) | v | Pakistan 250/9 (41 overs) |
| Steven Davies 87 (67) Saeed Ajmal 4/58 (9 overs) | | Kamran Akmal 53 (61) James Anderson 2/35 (9 overs) |
* England won by 24 runs Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Ian Gould (Eng) Player of the match: Steven Davies (Eng)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
* Wet ground reduced play to 41 overs each.
* Mohammad Irfan (Pak) made his ODI debut.

### 2nd ODI

* 12 September Scorecard
| Pakistan 294/8 (50 overs) | v | England 295/6 (49.3 overs) |
| Kamran Akmal 74 (72) Stuart Broad 4/81 (10 overs) | | Andrew Strauss 126 (134) Saeed Ajmal 2/52 (10 overs) |
* England won by 4 wickets Headingley, Leeds Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Nigel Llong (Eng) Player of the match: Andrew Strauss (Eng)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd ODI

* 17 September Scorecard
| Pakistan 241 (49.4 overs) | v | England 218 (45.4 overs) |
| Fawad Alam 64 (86) James Anderson 3/26 (10 overs) | | Eoin Morgan 61 (74) Umar Gul 6/42 (10 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 23 runs The Oval, London Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Richard Illingworth (Eng) Player of the match: Umar Gul (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

### 4th ODI

* 20 September Scorecard
| Pakistan 265/7 (50 overs) | v | England 227 (46.1 overs) |
| Mohammad Hafeez 64 (100) Graeme Swann 4/37 (10 overs) | | Andrew Strauss 68 (72) Umar Gul 4/32 (8.1 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 38 runs Lord's, London Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Richard Kettleborough (Eng) Player of the match: Abdul Razzaq (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

### 5th ODI

* 22 September Scorecard
| England 256/6 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 135 (37 overs) |
| Eoin Morgan 107* (101) Shoaib Akhtar 3/40 (10 overs) | | Kamran Akmal 41 (53) Stuart Broad 3/25 (8 overs) |
* England won by 121 runs Rose Bowl, Southampton Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Ian Gould (Eng) Player of the match: Eoin Morgan (Eng)
* England won the toss and elected to bat.

## Tour matches
### First-class: Worcestershire vs Pakistan

* 13–14 August Scorecard
* Match drawn New Road, Worcester Umpires: Richard Kettleborough and Steve Malone
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Play on day 1 was reduced due to rain and bad light.
* Play on day 2 was called off due to rain.

### List A: Somerset vs Pakistan

* 2 September 2010 Scorecard
| Pakistan 264 (47.3 overs) | v | Somerset 256/9 (50.0 overs) |
| Shahzaib Hasan 105 (120) Lewis Gregory 4/49 (10 overs) | | Zander de Bruyn 122* (142) Saeed Ajmal 3/40 (10 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 8 runs County Ground, Taunton Umpires: Keith Coburn and Richard Illingworth
* Somerset won the toss and elected to field.