there have been calls that cricket fraternity should force pcb to act so that the corrupt players are not let off with mild punishment making the mockery of cricket war against match or spot fixing given the past record of pcb...
well... i don't have issues with other boards forcing pcb to act decisively... but what would penalising three tainted players will achieve...? will cricket become immune to the fixing just by getting rid of three tainted players...?
what about all boards collectively forcing icc to make acsu not only capable enough to act proactively but accountable to such glaring lapses when they were literally caught with their pants down by NOTW...?
a classic example of how acsu function... first they cleared the kamaran's sydneygate test of any suspicion of match fixing but now they are reinvestigating the same test after the NOTW exposé... means either their inquiry into sydney test earlier was shoddy and hurried... or they just want to be seen on working sincerely gauging the prevalent sentiment now...
till we have these customary watch dogs that exists just for the sake of it... that take millions to sleep at work... i am sure we are not far behind from exposing another tainted players of match fixing coz if only stringent actions against the culprits would decidedly serve as the deterrent... we would never see a murder in life...
why forcing pcb to act is just a 'righteous' move...
shared by straight point on Thursday, September 16, 2010
can 'informant' amir really escape life ban...?
shared by straight point on Tuesday, September 14, 2010
if this report is to be believed... mohammad amir could become icc informant and reveal "dodgy betting identities that corrupted him" to escape life ban from the spot fixining charges...
but in doing so... can amir escape the life ban in real...?
let me explain...
in life one can become informant of authorities to escape harsh punishment coz he has the option to start life afresh elsewhere... but can cricketer who will have to return to the same system... same colleagues to earn living by playing for them do that...?
although in open... pcb and his colleagues will pat his back for exposing the malice in cricket... but will they trust him the same way in closet...?
will the very system, pcb in this case, that didn't act earlier coz its own hands were muddled in corruption, continue to pick him like they would normally after amir exposing "dodgy betting identities that corrupted him"...?
incidentally... the first casualty of spot fixing saga is not from the tainted trio but it is yasir hameed, who on camera bragged about all his colleagues being involved in match fixing, and one can be pretty assured he won't share the same dressing room again...
hameed is the one who will be serving the unofficial life ban... without even charged for spot fixing...
why you want to shift attention...?
shared by straight point on Saturday, September 11, 2010
look around almost everybody is welcoming champions league (CLT20) as the savior of cricket... the much needed refreshing shift of attention cricket needed from spot fixing saga...
why we would want to shift attention from spot-fixing when the time is ripe to nip it in the bud...?
why you want to just do the first aid with supporting dose of painkiller to do away the pain when its really is the time to operate...?
painkillers never heal the wound... the faith that was the first and biggest casualty... painkillers just takes the pain of being cheated away from us... the attention gets diverted and this is exactly what the incompetent authorities are waiting for... the moment the attention is shifted they will pounce on the opportunity to create the illusion of action...
they will keep on throwing painkillers like a bait to fans hoping to get much needed time for negotiations to appease and protect their vested interests and we as fan would keep on falling to these baits coz they know we don't have options...
but if ever there was time ripe for over-reactions in cricket... this is the time...
cricket will be played... there won't be dearth of it... the upcoming season is full of it... and as a fan i am ready to do away with some of the side shows that are being run in the name of cricket, the pundits are already proclaiming as welcome shift of attention, if it leads to some concrete, if not conclusive, actions to restore the lost faith...
jrod has proof of spot fixing in ipl...
shared by straight point on Monday, August 30, 2010
i know i would be hated for this... but if you don't believe me... here is the definite pointer...
I’m not naïve about spot fixing, I’ve written more than a few pieces about it. I know it goes on. But in pointless ICL, IPL or Pro40 games.
before you link my nationality with this post and dismiss it as rant of another ipl chastity protector... let me clear at outset that i am not beating my chest over ipl... it is the matter of principle, attitude and responsibility...
the matter of spraying words just to make an interesting narrative... and bcoz jrod is angry that his cricket, he so dearly loves, which has been maligned, so he has got the right to throw accusations at anything he pleases...
it is also surprising as well as disappointing that on one count coz he is looking to make career out of cricket, he dearly loves, and is one of the most followed blogger on blogosphere... who has just given in to the verbal diarrhea over facts and substance just to make narrative interesting...
and here, i was thinking that here comes the one who will not at least give in to cheap sensationalism over substance that is so prevalent these days...
so either jrod has conclusive proofs of spot fixing in ipl and will share it with all of us for the benefit of cleansing cricket he dearly loves or at least has the grace to put an apology to admit that this was one lose word too many...
coz in failing to do so he invariably stands in same corner like the ones who blaim cricketers... players are cheats and hence malign cricket more than anything without actually having anything in support to show for their accusations...
