After the recent judgment given by jury of Crown prosecution, I think the cricketers who are found guilty in these cases should be banned for life, trialed in courts of Pakistan as well and their assets should be taken into confiscated. I think these players should be given punishment so that a lesson could be given to other players in order to save the nation’s integrity and shame from these types of activities in future.
The ICC’s anti-corruption unit which is working to stop corruption in cricket did nothing in controlling such incidents before hand. The government and the PCB should take strong steps to clean up the domestic cricket. The cricketers should be asked to give the details of their bank accounts and they should be regularly checked by boards.
BILAL AHSAN
Islamabad
(II)
Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty of fixing parts of a Test match against England in a case that has thrown the credibility of the international game into doubt. Former Test captain Butt and fast bowler Asif face jail after a court in London convicted them of deliberately bowling three no-balls during the Lord’s Test in August 2010 as part of a “spot-fixing” betting scam.The cricketers who have defamed the country internationally must be given exemplary punishment so that no one dares defame the country again. I suggest no leniency should be observed to them and their guilt be treated as treason.
Further, I suggest in the greater national interest of the country, informal ban of taking Sindhi and Balochi speaking players in national teams for cricket and hockey must be lifted immediately.
MOHAMMAD KHAN SIAL
Karachi
Not only those who have been convicted but all the rest like Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik etc and officials or coach like Shafqat Rana, Waqar Younus, Ijaz Ahmed, Salim Malik, Miandad, Moeen Khan, Yawar Saeed etc should be banned for life.
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