There are match officials, players, people within the International Cricket Council, coaches, even grounds-people. They are into this gambling mafia and are corrupting the sport.

I know people point the finger at certain countries and they have a right to. It is my belief that it is chiefly South Africa and India from where this gambling emanates. And from there it travels around the world. It's not just me ranting either. If you saw the papers during the week, Steve Waugh made a very similar statement. When I was playing through the 1970s and '80s things were going on as well. There was a tour of India where fixing went on that I refused to go on for those very reasons.

And then there was Sharjah.

That's a place where the problem goes back a long way too but I stayed clear of all that as well. I think the problem has gradually gotten worse.

I don't see a cure either because the governing body has a history of being involved in these scandals. If you go back a couple of years, you can see the problems within the ICC. Look at Jagmohan Dalmiya who was president from 1997 to 2000. At the time most people saw him as a great ambassador for the game but only afterwards did misappropriation of funds and other discrepancies emerge. Matthew Engel of Wisden was one of the few people who came out and said the truth regarding Dalmiya and Engel is a man that is highly respected and has long been a critical of the ICC.

In 1999 there was trouble at the World Cup. Bangladesh beat Pakistan and a lot of suspicious talk surrounded that match. But it went away and it has taken the death of Bob Woolmer to bring this problem back into the public eye.

That should never have been the case. I must say that I don't think Pakistan threw the game against Ireland like some people have muttered.

They didn't want to lose that.

You could see the body language, they looked like they were stunned and worried.

There faces were hanging.

That wasn't the case against the West Indies and that defeat didn't seem to bother them greatly. But they were under a lot of pressure losing to Ireland. Sadly for Ireland, one of their great days was quickly overshadowed.

I think the Jamaican police have messed up everything since then. The first two days after Woolmer's death they say he died and then they come out with another story.

They say he seems to be murdered. Now they are not sure.

That is why I appeal to Tony Blair on this matter. Bob Woolmer is a man who served England for many years on the cricket pitch and has died in very suspicious circumstances and little is being done. I would ask Mr Blair to launch an inquiry through parliament and get MI5 involved and get to the bottom of the death and the investigation that has messed up so badly since. The truth about the loss of an English hero should come out.

To me the truth is, he was murdered, I don't think there is any doubt. They have said the CCTV cameras could reveal everything, so why don't they release them?

There is too much suspicion surrounding all of this. What is the problem if the answers are there in front of them?

Why is everything being kept quiet? My suspicions are that Woolmer knew too much of the gambling mafia because he was coach of a South African team where Hansie Cronje used to fix games and then Pakistan where there are similar problems.

Cronje died suspiciously in a plane crash after what he did emerged but people don't talk about that anymore either. I believe Cronje was murdered and it will never be known officially. It worries me that we will never know what happened to Bob Woolmer. So we all have to work together. I am on it but others need to get on it as well. The truth has to come out so people can be punished.

Sarfraz Nawaz is a former Pakistani cricketer who invented reverse swing. He later became a prominent politician.