Darkest day of Pakistan cricket

Sikandar Bakht
It is the darkest day of Pakistan cricket. The PCB should watch under-19 cricketers and do their proper grooming. Most players come from modest families and they easily get lured in such traps. People give them gifts and take them to dinners etc and then trap them. The PCB should start educating them from their tender ages.
The ACU of the ICC is a useless bunch of people and they have not even caught a single cricketer involved in match-fixing. See Hansie Cronje was caught by spies, Kenyan cricketer was reported by his wife and now these cricketers were caught by a reporter.

Zaheer Abbas

I am sad on what has happened because it involves sportsmen but at the same time I think justice has been done because if you do something wrong you pay the price.
I just feel sad for Pakistan cricket as well because cricketers are not supposed to be associated with crime and corruption. But I think in a way it is good for Pakistan and world cricket because it should serve as a deterrent to others.

Rashid Latif

The two main characters, Mazhar Mahmood and bookie Mazhar Majeed deserved to be punished as well.
They set the trap for our players which they fell into and they have paid the price today.
If that time proper action had been taken in time, we would not have seen this shameful day today. Our authorities have a habit of trying to sweep such things under the mat

Aamir Sohail

The PCB should have played a more pro-active role last year when the issue came up and brought the players back to Pakistan immediately and tried them under our code of conduct. They should not have let the matter go into the hands of the ICC.What is the ICC ACU doing when people like Mazhar Majeed can still infiltrate teams and corrupt players. Where is their system?

Khalid Mehmood

The damage to Pakistan cricket, to its credibility, had already been done when the news of this case first broke. We have lost some of our best cricketers and I hope that this sends a message out to upcoming players that these short-cut methods to earn a quick buck can cost you respect and your career.

Yawar Saeed

It is a very disappointing and sad day for us in many ways. For the players to be caught up in criminal proceedings is shameful. I think the impact of the entire incident has already been felt months ago. What is required now is to forget everything and move ahead.