Melbourne, Dec 15(ANI): Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has said that he had refused to meet with convicted cricket match-fixer Mazhar Majeed after hearing rumours about the agent's rogue operations.
Majeed, who along with Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were sent to jail in London for spot-fixing against England, had attempted to lure Afridi into his web.
"Majeed wanted to talk to me, but I had heard rumours about this guy, I didn't talk to him," Afridi told Daily Telegraph upon arriving in Melbourne for the Twenty 20 Big Bash League.
"My God has given me everything, my father worked hard so I could have everything, why would I need to do these things?" he added.
Afridi further said that he never suspected that his former teammates could be involved in spot-fixing and added that nobody has ever asked him to fix results.
"I feel ashamed about what happened in the past, there are a lot of bad things that have happened. But we can learn from our past. If you look at our performances since these issues came up, we lost by one game in the one-dayers against England, we lost 3-2 to South Africa, but it was a good effort winning those two games," he said.
"We won against New Zealand in New Zealand, and we made semi-finals of the World Cup, nobody expected us to do that. The team is doing a great job, we're going through a very tough situation and we are playing as a unit. We are trying to make our reputation better," he added. (ANI)
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