LIVE: Phones Seized! Pakistan Cricket Faces ‘Fixing’ Questions | First Sports With Rupha Ramani

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Pakistan cricket is once again dealing with questions it desperately did not want to hear. As seven players are sent home, phones are seized and an internal disciplinary inquiry is launched, the fixing cloud returns at Lord’s, the very ground where the 2010 spot-fixing scandal shattered Pakistan cricket. Rupha Ramani looks at why this latest controversy feels far more disturbing when viewed against that history. Also on the show is some Ballon d’Or news. Kylian Mbappe has the numbers, the records and the confidence to match them. But as he backs himself for the Ballon d’Or, there is one thing his case is still missing the biggest trophies. With Ousmane Dembélé, Lamine Yamal, Harry Kane and others in the conversation, Rupha Ramani asks whether Mbappe’s extraordinary individual season is enough to finally take him to the top of football’s biggest individual award. And then there is Kevin Pietersen, the man who was once considered too difficult for England’s dressing room. Twelve years

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