http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s fight against corruption – Cricket News
The runaway Pakistan wicket-keeper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zulqarnain-c98682 Haider, who has recently returned home after spending months in self-exile, has expressed satisfaction over Pakistan Cricket Board’s ongoing fight against corruption and hoped it would bear
positive results.
The former wicket-keeper hoped the Pakistan Government, the national cricket board and the International Cricket Council would root out the menace of match and spot-fixing from the sport of gentlemen. He opined that he is ready to support
the fight against corruption even though it damaged his cricketing career.
"I am satisfied that the ongoing fight against corruption in cricket will bear positive results," said Haider in a telephone interview on Thursday. "I put my career on line and still don't bother if it continues to suffer," he added further.
The 25-year-old Pakistan cricketer fled Dubai for London in November last year in the midst of his team’s neutral venue series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 citing death threats from some unknown match-fixers. He later sought political asylum in
Britain, a plea that was neither supported by the Pakistan government nor the Pakistan Cricket Board.
After spending almost six months of self-exile in London, the escapee returned home on Monday.
After his return home, Pakistan police started an investigation of the calls Zulqarnain received from the anonymous bookmakers. The police arrested eight people in the city of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sialkot-c842 and they admitted threatening the former wicket-keeper.
Zulqarnain, who has not yet been given a security clearance to go back to his home in the capital city of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833, Lahore said that the detentions have given him more confidence.
"The kind of confidence given to me by the government has brought me back and I am happy that they are taking serious steps," Haider said.
"The image of Pakistan cricket has been badly hurt by match-fixing and this continues to haunt it after every few months, but now I hope that with the serious steps and actions a time will come when our cricket becomes clean," he added further.
Haider, who had earlier announced retirement from international cricket following death threats, is eager to make a come-back in the national side and said that he will soon meet the Pakistan Cricket Board to clear his position.
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