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Top Cricketers Banned for Match Fixing
By siliconindia
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Friday, 04 November 2011, 23:40 IST |
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Bangalore: The game of Cricket is put to shame - the greed has killed the glory of the game and called the integrity of the players into question. It's not just the Pakistan Cricket alone jeopardized with the UK court's sentencing to jail the Pak trio, but the entire cricketing world has come to a pause to contemplate on how to bring back the truest spirit of the game into the field.
This is not a tale of misfortunate individuals doing something wrong, this is a tale of people who had everything and threw it away for a little money, a tale where the world saw their good, bad and ugly sides. The most important part we should remember is that these sports men who gave their way for greed were never the average or the bad ones, they were among the best and they all had a great career till then. The treachery against their fans, their country and the sport itself can be forgotten, but there is no forgiveness for the treachery they did to their team mates. Their team mates were with them out there in the field, under the hot sun, through success and failure, they backed them up and in return got back stabbed. There is no forgiveness for this. While it is the first time that cricketers are sent to prison, corruption and match fixing have long been prevalent in the cricketing world. Here is a list of top cricketers banned for match fixing.
At the helm of disgrace, the Pak trio tops the list. Pak's former Test captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were convicted on charges of taking bribes to fix parts of Lord's Test match in 2010. Along with the agent Mazhar Majeed, the three young talents were caught in fixing controversy in a sting operation by News International. Majeed, who claimed to have many other international players in his pocket, struck deals with these players to bowl no-balls at specific movements in the controversial test match against England. While Salman Butt was given a 30-month imprisonment, Mohammad Asif will have to spend a year in jail and the 18-year-old Amir will serve six months in a correctional institution.
