Cricket: Pakistan are facing further match-fixing allegations after Test opener Yasir Hameed reportedly admitting some of his team-mates were involved in throwing games.
The News of the Worldrocked the cricket world with their spot-fixing claims last weekend - with Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer now the subject of police and ICC investigations. They have now followed up with an interview with Hameed, who played in the fourth Test at The Oval.
"They've been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks," he is quoted as saying. "They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages.
"It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose."
The full details of the latest claims will be released over the course of the night, but the paper also claim that the ICC are currently investigating a fourth - as yet unnamed - Pakistan player.
Sunday's edition also carries allegations that investigators recovered at least £10,000 of marked bank notes in Butt's hotel room.
The ICC were unable to confirm or deny any of the details in the latest report, which says there are 23 charges hanging over the three.
"We cannot discuss ongoing investigations," said a spokesman for world cricket's governing body.
Similarly, the Metropolitan police would not say whether they had questioned a fourth player.
Yesterday, Pakistan limited-overs captain Shahid Afridi apologised to the world of cricket on behalf of the suspended trio. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt, team manager Yawar Saeed and High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan have all been at pains to stress the three players face allegations only and have been found guilty of nothing.
But in an apparently significant departure from that stance comes Afridi's international apology for three players who were questioned by police under caution on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation which has seen Croydon-based agent Mazher Majeed arrested but released on bail without charge.
"I think this is very bad news," said Afridi. "On behalf of these boys - I know they're not in this series - I want to say sorry to all cricket lovers and all the cricketing nations."
Afridi added, with a smile: "I've told the boys 'don't read the newspaper tomorrow - just focus on cricket',"
The sides are due to play the first of two Twenty20 matches in Cardiff on Sunday afternoon, but it is currently unclear whether those proceedings will be affected by the latest claims.