For quite sometime now, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket has been marred by allegations of match-fixing which has damaged the sport to such an extent that it almost appears irreparable.
Apparently, there is much going on to curb the corruption on national and international level. Mostly Pakistani players are found guilty of such misconduct, despite serious reactions from ICC and PCB. Why only Pakistani players get caught-up in such incidents?
ICC has taken many steps by proposing strict code of conducts, and it has ordered PCB to take serious notice of all these corruption-related activities.
The spot-fixing controversies prevailed in 2010 when three of Pakistani cricketers were involved in bowling deliberate no-balls as a promise to a bookie.
The ICC suspended the trio provisionally and will hear their full cases from 6-11 January in Doha after which their fates will be decided.
Considering this strict notice from the ICC there should have been a decrease in such activities especially in Pakistan cricket however, this does not seem the case.
Last month, a video tape shown by a private television channel revealed some more players involved in spot-fixing. In the video tape, the same bookie, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed was shown as naming seven Pakistan players involved in spot-fixing. He disclosed the names
of Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Wahab Riaz and Imran Farhat.
In addition to this, ICC has not given clearance to three more Pakistani players, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danish-Kaneria-c1314, because of previous spot-fixing allegations. As a result, this trio will not be the part of preliminary squad of World Cup 2011.
PCB, in response to their allegations did not issue NOC to Malik and Kamran for playing in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
As a protest against corruption, PCB recently observed anti-corruption day which clearly showed their resolve towards eliminating corruption from Pakistan cricket. Furthermore, it also introduced a new post of Director Education and Training as a step for
the improvement in anti-corruption mission. The Director will train and educate the players and will develop the mentality of player in right direction.
Perhaps the major reason for such corruption is the system of the country. Like any other institution of Pakistan, PCB is also negligent in curbing such activities.
The system of the country where all institutions are somehow involved in misconduct and corruption, how can cricket be devoid of it? Cricketers being part of the system feel free to attempt for bribery and the main appealing thing for them is ‘money’ for
which they not only ruin their own name but infact the name of their country as well.
Talking about the causes of corruption in Pakistan cricket, former Supreme Court judge Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim said that money is the force behind this and most of the players who belong to underprivileged backgrounds are more likely to commit such crimes.
There is a great need to change the entire system to root out corruption from all the institutions of the country. If this is not done soon, Pakistan Cricket may be plunged into such darkness from where it will be almost impossible for it to recover.
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