Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed admits he was naive in talking to an undercover newspaper reporter about spot-fixing.
English tabloid News of the World recorded Hameed talking to a reporter about the allegations against his team-mates and quoted Hameed claiming that every match on Pakistan's tour of England was fixed.
Three Pakistan players are under investigation by the ICC for alleged spot-fixing allegations.
"They've been caught. Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks," Hameed was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match."
"God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages. It makes me angry because I'm playing my best and they are trying to lose."
But after denying he made the comments, the young opener has now clarified that he was only repeating what he had read in earlier newspaper reports.
"I wish to stress I have never been approached by the NOTW and neither did I approach anyone connected with the News of the World to disclose any allegations concerning the Pakistan cricket team or any other players," Hameed said in a statement.
"I was then approached by a man who introduced himself as Abid Khan and offered that he would arrange a sponsorship deal for me with ETIHAD Airways."
"As far as I can recall I only told him whatever I had already read in the newspapers about this matter."
Hameed also said the reporter, Mazhar Mahmood, later called him and 'offered me 25,000 pounds (AUS$42,000) to give a statement against the three current players under investigation, which I immediately refused'.
Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi said Hameed was immature and said it was not the first time he had spoken without thinking.
"I think he is 30, 31, but mentally he is 15, 16," Afridi said after Pakistan's five-wicket loss to England in a Twenty20 International in Cardiff on Monday (AEST).
"I don't know with who he was sitting or in which situation he gave this message, I don't know but we have known him for a long time and we can expect anything from him."
"He has been doing these type of things a lot of time."