Weston Saint Posted 1 November, 2011 Share Posted 1 November, 2011 Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif found guilty of conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments. To be sentenced on Thursday and face a maximum of 8 years! Mohammad Amir pleaded guilty to all charges before trial started but that had to be kept from the jury. Sends out a massive message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 1 November, 2011 Share Posted 1 November, 2011 Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted 1 November, 2011 Share Posted 1 November, 2011 Funny, I was at that match on the first day. They looked like they were going to rip England a new one and suddenly there was a couple of no balls and they seemed to ease up on us. Didn't think anything of it at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 2 November, 2011 Share Posted 2 November, 2011 Would put up one of those ORLY posters if I had time to find one this morning. Really not surprised, was lucky to be able to go to Pakistan many times for work in the past and about 12 years ago went with a mate to the test in Lahore where we were guests of a former Lahore CC player and sat in the "luxury" of Javed's office/box. About an hour before the game, someone delivered a dozen brand new boxed Nokia mobiles to the room along with sim cards, some hushed conversation and one of the security guards collected them and went straight down to the Pakistan Dressing room with them. It seemed wrong on every level back then and made us feel really uncomfortable, so really no surprise at all. Even the PCB's Head of Protocol, a very pleasant chap who's job was to ensure all "foreign guests" were looked after was running around trying to get a job for himself / family members in any country or organisation. He gave us something like 20 CV's and would let us sit in the dressing room with the players if we wished (for a consideration of course). It is not a way of life it is simply part of the culuture that exists. (Oh in the end we didn't need to pay, we blagged our way in anyway!). Mark Nicholas was so shcoked to find a couple of Hampshire fans so far away from home! Won't judge the players, their ability makes them a part of the elite of society in Pakistan, where the level of poverty and things like skilled IT sales guys earning only a couple of hundred dollars a month make you realise that for them even $100 is a lot of money. Very sad that these young players got caught, but they sure were not the first and they will not be the last. They were just unlucky that the Fake Sheikh thought it would be a good story, wrong time wrong place. I can understand why they did it, how the culture allowed them to do it and how the ineffectiveness of the ICC made them think they could get away with it. I can also understand why they should not have any qualms about turning on each other in court or using such obscure defences such as "The Captain told me to run faster" But of course from my "Western Standpoint" it really is not cricket and they should rot in Jail, and "They are as bad as former poopey management" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt has been jailed for 30 months for his part in the conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls in last year's Test match against England. Former world number two Test bowler Mohammad Asif was jailed for one year and bowler Mohammad Amir has been sentenced to six months. Cricket agent Mazhar Majeed was jailed for two years and eight months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Don't they get kicked out of the Islamic Religion for cheating as well? A sort of excommunication,cheats are 'not one of us" according to the Koran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Interesting one, by bowling a no ball you wouldn't neccessarily throw the game, but like Matt Le Tiss claiming to kick the ball out of play for a betting scam (which he never did but sounded good in the book) it shows the game in a bad light. Guess the sentences are good to stop this happening again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Interesting one, by bowling a no ball you wouldn't neccessarily throw the game, but like Matt Le Tiss claiming to kick the ball out of play for a betting scam (which he never did but sounded good in the book) it shows the game in a bad light. Guess the sentences are good to stop this happening again. Spot betting in sport is always open to corruption and should IMO be banned. Hard to enforce though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born In The 80s Posted 4 November, 2011 Share Posted 4 November, 2011 Am i the only one who thinks jail is ridiculously harsh?? Perhaps the 2 of the 3 who lied in court and pleaded not guilty deserved it, but it seems ridiculously harsh on the young lad who seemed to show genuine remorse at what he'd done. As JRM pointed out, MLT did virtually the same thing and nothing was made of it. These cricketers aren't on huge money, they are young men who (particularly in Pakistan's case) spend up to 9 months of the year away from home. Of course what they did was really wrong, but i would have much rather seen a massive fine and perhaps a much bigger ban. That is punishment enough in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 4 November, 2011 Share Posted 4 November, 2011 ^^^ My answer is yes you are the only one IMHO. In fact seeing as how only one half of the sentence will be actually served I think the term should have been at least double the original when it was handed down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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