http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084 wants ICC to take strict measures against match-fixing – Cricket News Update
Former captain of Pakistani cricket team, Rashid Latif, believes that the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) needs to take stricter measures to eradicate the curse of match-fixing from the face of international cricket, and said that players from all teams
are plagued by this cancer.
One of the most devastating spot-fixing controversies in history of cricket emerged during Pakistan's tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Amir-c76675, were found guilty of deliberate no-balls, with the involvement
of their skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-Butt-c2418.
The trio was sent behind bars and was banned from all sorts of competitive cricket - domestic and international. Not only this, spot-fixing has doomed careers of many top-notch international players in the past as well.
Rashid, who was strictly against such deeds during his playing days, believes that corruption should be completely eradicated from the sport or else viewers and fans will lose faith and interest. He further added that Pakistani players are not the only ones
who are involved in such wrongdoings.
Former captain said, "Nothing can be guaranteed these days. You never know anything until it has surfaced. The recent case has only put a stamp on Pakistani players as match fixers - and I've seen a lot of it in the last 20 years."
Former international captains, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salim-c88143 Malik were banned from international cricket during their playing days, and numerous other high-profile players have faced such allegations leading to trials or penalties.
Rashid feels ICC must impose strict punishments on players who are found guilty of such misdeeds in future, and that this is the only way players will keep themselves away from bookies. He feels that Pakistani cricket fans were badly hurt after the spot-fixing
controversy but they want to see the game clean.
"Anyone involved in match fixing must go behind bars. The people of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 want to watch games without fixing," he added.
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