an imposter posing as a former pakistan cricketer repeatedly conned the bbc into paying him to appear on air as a pundit nadeem alam posed as ex batsman nadeem abbasi on bbc world news, bbc asian network and radio five live, despite only ever playing for his home town of huddersfield his work even included a discussion with former indian batsman aakash chopra nadeem alam repeatedly convinced the bbc he was as pakistani cricket star nadeem abbasi  now abbasi is furious after becoming aware of the fraudster's antics   and blasted the bbc for not checking their facts abbasi, who played three tests for pakistan in 1989, is furious that the pretender has damaged his country's reputation and plans to punch him if they ever meet,the sun reported he told the newspaper : 'if i ever find nadeem alam, i will punch him in the face for damaging the country's reputation' the 46 year old, who now coaches a team in rawalpindi, added: 'the bbc is a big institution and surely they must check?' he added his only media appearance was on pakistani television during the world cup in 1996 nadeeem abbasi (left) is furious after finding out and blasted the bbc for not checking  he will take some comfort in  alam's reassurance that he is 'no longer pretending to be nadeem abbasi' but alam added that he believes his opinions have been 'good' the 46 year old, who has admitted posing as a squash player to blag free equipment, told the sun: 'i like to think i have been talking good cricket' a bbc spokesman said: 'we apologise to the real mr abbasi and we will be looking seriously into what has happened'
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nadeem alam, 46, repeatedly posed as cricket star nadeem abbasi, also 46 . appeared on bbc world news, bbc asian network and radio five live . but he has only ever played cricket for his home town of huddersfield . abbasi says he will punch alam if he ever comes face to face with him 