Cricket Corruption and Future of Pakistan Cricket

Cricket is a beautiful game and very commercialized too, a lot of money involved in it, recent match fixing and spot fixing allegations over some Pakistan cricket team members are very questionable, dangerous and alarming for the future of the cricket, in my opinion PCB is fully responsible for current cricket corruption, officials knows every thing but they was silent and took the matter easy, if they punish cricketer in the past in legal way the situation would not be worst like this.

• Current PCB chairman Ejaz Butt is not fit for this position and not knowledgeable about cricket, he is mentally retired and just posses the seat through political appointment by President Zardari.

• Selectors taking political and financial pressure to select the cricketers with personal likes and dislikes also.

• Potential Cricketers ignored by selectors, no merit criteria for selection, for example Asim Kamal who have excellent records in domestic cricket but he is being ignored, Azeem Ghuman, Abdul Rehman, Imran Nazir, Danish Kaneria, must be inn.

• Current Team should be change except Afridi and Saeed Ajmal, Mr Kamran Akmal should leave and Zulqarnain Haider must be inn.

Pakistan cricket is in very vulnerable serious crisis, if PCB and Government not take bold action, ICC could be ban Pakistan Cricket team which would be more shameful for Pakistan nation.

Pakistani Cricketers are involved in spot fixing - Yasir Hameed said

Pakistani Cricketers are involved in spot fixing each match nowadays - Yasir Hameed comments.This sensation remark made by the Pakistani opener Yasir Hameed who said that his team mates Salman ButtSalman Butt ,Mohammad AsifMohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir is fixing matches almost each matches.Even he was also offered 10k pound to fix the match but he did not take that.

Younis Khan accuses British Newspaper of defamation

Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan served a legal notice on British newspaper The Daily Telegraph for linking him with a spot-fixing scam involving seven national team players.

The Pakistani cricketers are being investigated by British police over a newspaper sting in which a bookmaker was allegedly paid to get the team to bowl no-balls during the fourth Test against England at Lord’s which Pakistan lost Sunday.

The Telegraph apparently linked Younis, who ended his captaincy last year after a players’ revolt against him, to the bookmaker Mazhar Majeed at the centre of the allegations.

“We have sent a legal notice to the Telegraph for linking Younis with the accused bookmaker Mazhar Majeed as his (Younis’) marketing agent in a recent newspaper article,” Younis’s lawyer Ahmed Qayyum told AFP.

“Younis was never linked or had any contract with Majeed.” He said he had also forced several websites to remove similar allegations.

Qayyum said he had demanded that the Telegraph retract its story and pay compensation of 10,000 pounds (15,400 dollars) to his client, which would go to a charity helping victims of Pakistan’s floods.

Source:The News

Pakistan Match Fixing-Spot Fixing Scandal-Amir to undergo rehabilitation says Atherton.

Mike Atherton, the former England captain, wants Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir to undergo rehabilitation instead of getting punished if charges of playing a role in a ‘spot-fixing’ scandal are proven against the young fast bowler.

“Admittedly, if these allegations are proven accurate, to reprieve Amir at the expense of anyone else involved would be arbitrary and, in a sense, unfair. It would give succour to those who argue — rightly — that the events of the past few days are a direct consequence of a failure to act on the excesses of the past. Yet that would be to ignore the obvious: that Amir is a potent symbol right now, of what was, what is and what might be,” wrote Atherton in his column in The Times on Tuesday.

“He should not be punished as an example to the rest, as everyone seems to suggest, rather he should be made aware of the issues, educated, rehabilitate and held up as an example of what can be achieved.

“Amir’s rehabilitation should be at the heart of the cleansing of Pakistan cricket. The brilliant young bowler is not the cause of the problem but the most tragic consequence of it,” stressed Atherton, now working as Times’ chief cricket correspondent.

Amir, 18, hogged the limelight during the best part of the four-Test series against England with his deadly swing bowling that he deliver with a big, youthful smile.

But the lanky pacer is now facing the prospects of a life ban after being accused of bowling a deliberate no-ball during the Lord’s Test last week. His new-ball partner Mohammad Asif is also accused of a similar crime while Test captain Salman Butt and his deputy Kamran Akmal are also under investigation for having links with match-fixers.

Most critics believe that if found guilty, all the players, including the young Amir, should be given exemplary punishment. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has also promised prompt and decisive action against anybody found guilty of wrongdoing.

But Atherton argues that Amir might be a victim rather than one of the villains of the story.

“Now think of Salman Butt and the nature of authority in Pakistan itself. When a slip catch disappeared through the cordon at the Brit Insurance Oval, Butt walked towards them and gave them a very public dressing-down. An England captain might have got a flea in his ear had he done the same; in Pakistan you don’t flout authority. Could an 18-year-old resist the wishes of his elders, his superiors,” he questioned.

Source: The News