Horrible dark and gloomy morning hangs over Lords this morning

What action this summer involing the Pakistan team was totally legit?!

Sad day for Cricket

If Pakistan do not turn up today I think that should be the end of them as an International Cricket team

Turned up but are not warming up on the pitch

Sadly it's endemic Pakistani cricket, and it won't seem to go away, an uncle of mine was a cricketer in Pakistan and he's got story after story he could tell you about it.

If it's proven then something drastic has to be done to rid cricket of the problem, it may only be individual players but the authorities in Pakistan have to get a handle on it, if this means taking a long ban from international cricket then so be it.

Having said that I expect Pakistan are far from the only ones.

Will they get through to lunch?

No. This is the grimmest cricket I've sat through for a long, long time.

That final morning ruined the test series for me, which is sad.

England have played really well but now there are huge shadows over the matches, got to feel for Broad after a great knock to have all the talk being about match fixing etc.

Really enjoyed the SS chat during the day, some really strong opinions especially from Holding. If found guilty then they have to be made examples of although the ban should match the level of involvement too.

Wonder if the ODI's will go ahead now....

I can't see how any of the directly implicated players can take part if they do, the evidence is there for all to see.

I hold no hope for a proper inquiry with proper results at the end of it all though, time and time again these things have been swept under the carpet.

I've never known anything like it. On the face of it the level of fixing in this match at Lord's as presented by the News of the World sounds fairly innocuous in terms of influencing the result of the match, i.e. giving away three runs by bowling deliberate no balls, but now no one knows what else might have been fixed in the past. In fact, having read Sunday's NotW in full it seems Pakistan were trying desperately to win the Lord's Test so Salman Butt, the ringleader of the corrupt players, would be retained as captain! It is also suggested Pakistan threw their Test in Sydney earlier this year with the Aussies 40/1 with bookmakers to win it at one stage.

Pakistani cricket is so turbulent, with often bizarre selection and recall of players and captains, I don't trust anything they do now and have no interest in watching them. The forthcoming one day internationals really ought to be cancelled IMO. If I was an England player I wouldn't feel like playing against Pakistan right now, or for some time to come. The players implicated in this scandal surely cannot take part if they do go ahead.

That would be my preference, the games to go ahead with the three players suspended.