http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 fast bowler Mohammed Amir’s life in danger!
I’m sitting here thinking there could be many reasons why the top youngest talent in the cricket world would be in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. My mind is running circles and finding ways to digest all of this:
His life was in danger
His family was in danger
People around him know he uses no balls to unsettle batsman and used it to their advantage
He was told to unrest the batsman even if it means no ball
He is being blackmailed for something else
The excuses go on and on and on….
If true at all - yes large sum of money can make people do silly things. My thoughts are clear, since when a newspaper or my views can pass judgments on others. Why do we have courts, Charter of Right which says “Innocent until proven Guilty”. If every joe-blow can be the judge and the jury; we should just save on my tax dollars and let the guy next door decide who is guilty and who should be innocent.
News of the World did not perform this act for honor but to profit from it in every way possible. It is all about ROI where 150k seems like a pocket change for the brand awareness they generated.
People shouldn’t forget, there are always two sides to the story and in this case; putting the judgment aside, ICC and PCB are bigger culprits for not protecting http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Young-c41367 prospect who is such a delight to watch. The youngest bowler to take 50 wickets in test has a raw real talent; the people on top should have protected it at every cost necessary. What’s the point of setting up bodies that will try to monitor corruption when there should be bodies that try to pro-actively stop it.
Amir would appear as much victim as perpetrator, a teenager whose head was easily turned, writes Derek Pringle in the Telegraph.
“Surely his seniors should have been assuring him that his talent is a thousand times greater than any loathsome parasite who grooms players for a role in a murky trade. Instead, it might turn out, if indeed the allegations are proved, that they merely allowed him to be exploited as grotesquely as if he were a serf chained to a medieval overlord.”
What if there was a scholarship plan for the youngest cricket stars which involved money and on-going education by the ICC and local country board. What if Mohammad Amir was enrolled in this plan, would the bad guys gotten to him so easily?
In conclusion all of this is still speculations at its best and up until the authorities did their job; nothing should be taken at a face value. If anything, this is the time for ICC to live up to the expectations and take a promising young cricketer under their wing to get over this dilemma; regardless of true or false – if guilty punishment with rehab plan and if innocent, rehab with damage control plan . As a fan of cricket, I want the best to come out of this situation; what that best is Best left for the people in power to decide.
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