The bookie, who was arrested for alleged 'spot-fixing' in the Eng-Pak Lord's Test, has claimed that the result of the January Sydney Test between Australia and Pakistan was rigged.

The alleged match-fixer Mazhar Majeed, who was released on bail last night, is seen boasting about the fixed result and the money he earned from it in the video of the sting operation carried out by British tabloid 'The News of the World'.

"Let me tell you the last Test we did. It was the second Test against Australia in Sydney. Australia had two more wickets left. They had a lead of 10 runs, yeah. And Pakistan had all their wickets remaining.

"The odds for Pakistan to lose that match, for Australia to win that match, were I think 40-1. We let them get up to 150 then everyone lost their wickets," newspapers quoted Majeed as saying in the sting video.

"That one we made 1.3 million pounds. But that's what I mean, you can get up to a million. Tests is where the biggest money is because those situations arise."

Australia clinched an unlikely 36-run win in the Sydney Test after Pakistan lost nine wickets for a mere 89 runs.

The ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit had even investigated the match before giving it an all-clear.

But 'The News of the World' expose has cast fresh doubts over the game.

The sting has already resulted in the mobile phones and passports of some Pakistani players being confiscated in London.

The scandal implicates among others, Pakistan captain Salman Butt, the pace duo of Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal.

The team on Sunday lost the Lord's Test by an innings and 225 runs.

Ponting fears Aussies' Sydney milestones would be 'tainted'

Australian captain Ricky Ponting on Monday said if the match-fixing slur on his team's Sydney Test win over Pakistan is proved right, all individual milestones by his players in that game would be "tainted".

Reacting to the claims by a bookie Mazhar Majeed, who was arrested and later released on bail in London following a sting operation that implicated seven Pakistani players including skipper Salman Butt, Ponting said he has been left stunned.

But the Aussie skipper insisted that he never suspected anything fishy during the 36-run win over Pakistan in January in a match, which saw nine wickets of the visiting side fall for 89 runs.

"Not at the time, no, I had no idea about anything like that at all," Ponting told 'ABC Radio'.

"The way we won was one of the more satisfying moments that I've had on the cricket field. And now when some of these things come to light is when you start to slightly doubt some of the things that have happened. It's not up to us to worry about that anyway," he added.

But after the sting, Ponting said he fears the individual efforts by his players to notch that unlikely win would stand tainted.

"The thing that I'm most worried about if any of this is proven to be true is some of the individual performances that took place in that game," he said.

"You look at Mike Hussey's second innings hundred and Peter Siddle's batting and the way he was with Mike Hussey that day and Nathan Hauritz taking five wickets on the final day to win us the game.

"All of those individual milestones will be tainted as well," he added.

Hussey, who made what proved a match-winning 134, said despite the multiple chances dropped by Kamran, he didn't sense that any of the Pakistani players had ulterior motives.

"It all happens in a split second, the catches off me in particular were all up to the stumps," said Hussey.

"With those sort of catches, they either go in or they don't, I don't think you can try and drop those.

"I didn't think that there was anything untoward going on.

"They were certainly going very hard to get the wickets out there, they were going hard at me and they were certainly going very hard at Peter Siddle as well."

Match-fixing slur on Sydney Test most disturbing: CA

Meanwhile, Cricket Australia on Monday said the allegations are "most disturbing" and called for a thorough investigation into the scandal.

"The reports from the UK are most disturbing and we look forward to the outcome of rigorous investigation by the UK authorities as well as by the ICC," CA chief James Sutherland said.

"It is critical for cricket that the public has confidence in the integrity of the outcome of games, which is why CA and other ICC members have supported the significant world cricket investment in anti corruption over the last decade or more," he added.

Sutherland said he was not aware of the contents of the sting but if the allegations were true, strict action should be taken.

"We have no knowledge of the current allegations but by their very nature, they demonstrate the absolute importance of world cricket maintaining its vigilance in relation the anti-corruption," he said.

"As Lord Paul Condon, the founder of the ICC anti-corruption process has always said, that vigilance can never be relaxed," he added.

Sutherland said so far CA had not doubts about the Sydney Test in which Pakistan lost nine wickets for a mere 89 runs to give Australia an unlikely win.

"CA had been in no doubt that Australia had won that game on the merit of their on-field performance and will now wait on evidence from UK and ICC investigations before making any further comment," he said in a CA statement.