Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty of fixing parts of a Test against England in a case that has thrown the credibility of the international game into doubt. Former Test captain Butt, 27, and fast bowler Asif, 28, face jail after a court in London convicted them of deliberately bowling three no-balls during the Lord's Test in August 2010 as part of a "spot-fixing" betting scam.
The cricketers who have defamed the country internationally must be given exemplary punishment so that no one dares defame the country again. I suggest no leniency should be shown to them and their guilt be treated as treason. Further, I suggest that in the greater national interests of the country, an "informal ban" of taking Sindhi and Balochi-speaking players into the national team for cricket as well as hockey must be lifted and national team should look like bouquet with different fragrances of flowers.
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