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What does that saying go like, it's better to let go 10 guilty persons free than to convict 1 innocent man.Again the question comes who is Mazhar Majeed? Does he represent the players or sponsors? Is he authorized agent of the players because I don't think bank will give a check of such huge amount just to anybody. There's plenty of room to doubt that the deal is indeed murky. So suspension is justified isn't it?
Precisely, somehow, I feel it in my bones, just doesn't cut it in a case such as this.What evidence is 'sufficient'? Isn't the purpose of the yet to be complete SY investigation precisely to weight the evidence and come to a determination of whether the concerned individuals are guilty or not?
If so, then how has the ICC managed to obtain 'sufficient evidence' before the SY investigation is even complete, and without even interviewing/questioning the main parties involved?
What does that saying go like, it's better to let go 10 guilty persons free than to convict 1 innocent man.
The precedent this sets out is that every tabloid in the world can start accusing players of having cheated, everybody would get suspended.
If not proven then a sorry would be given and life goes back to normal.
You can't do anything to the tabloid. Remember the parent company of NOTW owns WSJ as well. It has enough money to drag on any case by somebody like Salman Butt indefinitely till they agree to settle outside of court.
Yes but if I can hire private investigators, I'd investigate if he had ulterior motives in jumping the gun a bit here, if the players are found not-guilty.Well I do think ICC could have been more lax to their decision as PCB already removed the players from their playing eleven. But legally speaking ICC has all the authority to do whatever been done and there's noway one can nail Lorgat or ICC for that matter.
But then again when someone of stature of High-Commissioner coming up with conspiracy theories then ICC had to make it's presence being felt.
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir have now been officially charged by the International Cricket Council of conduct unbecoming and their inclusion in the T20 and one-day matches would have cast a shadow over the whole team and rendered the rest of the series entirely meaningless. Headed by the hopelessly inept Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board resisted for as long as it could — insisting that no player accused of wrongdoing would be dropped — but was compelled to change tack when the
ICC pressed charges. The England and Wales Cricket Board had also been requesting its Pakistani counterparts, and rightly so, that players currently under a cloud of suspicion should be excluded from the rest of the tour. Only then could cricket be played for cricket’s sake, if that is at all possible even now. In the end it was largely the PCB’s intransigence that forced the ICC’s hand.
The intent here is not to pass judgment. Messrs Salman Butt, Asif and Aamir have only been charged with spot-fixing and remain innocent until they are proven guilty, even if the evidence at hand seems damning. At the same time, however, it should be remembered that they are accused of serious crimes and their innocence cannot be taken for granted. There is a lot of misguided patriotism in the air on this count. Many in this country are being made to believe that our cricketers were set up in a conspiracy designed to malign the nation. Pakistan’s high commissioner to the UK personally gave the trio a clean slate on remarkably dodgy grounds: he had spoken to them and they said they were innocent. They might well be but let’s reserve our verdict for the time being.
They were not caught with hard cash on cam.Pakistani cricketers are not saints. They caught red handed with hard cash on video cam. ICC did a good job by suspending them.
It is like this. There was murder with knife and one person near the dead holding knife and caught on cam. What police will do? Police will arrest him and start investigation.