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Pak team sponsor cancels deal with scandal-hit Amir | Sporting equipment manufacturer BoomBoom has suspended
its relationship with 'spot-fixing' scandal-hit Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir. BoomBoom, which has individual branding agreements with several Pakistan
players including Amir, said that the move was necessary to protect the company's
image. "Like everyone else in the cricket world, we are truly saddened and shocked
by these allegations. I sincerely hope they are not true," The Sydney Morning
Herald quoted Ali Ehsan, BoomBoom Managing Director, as saying in a statement.
"However, we are huge cricket lovers: pure and simple. We believe in, and encourage
players to have, the freedom to play, fairly. We cannot allow our brand to be
associated with any whiff of corruption or suspicion of foul play." "While the
suspension of our commercial involvement with Mohammad Aamer is not a step we
take lightly, we nevertheless feel that it is the right thing to do while a judicial
process unfolds and innocence or guilt is established," he added. Ehsan also stressed
that the company will review its two-year deal with the team. "BoomBoom is also
reviewing its position as official kit supplier to the Pakistan Cricket Board,"
he said. The Pakistan team is in the midst of a betting scam, where Amir and fellow
fast bowler Mohammad Asif are alleged to have bowled pre-arranged no-balls in
the Lord's Test, which England won by an innings and 225 runs. According to The
News of the World, they were part of a 150,000-pound betting scam with London-based
agent Mazhar Majeed. |
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