KAHIHI

I do not wish to pardon the Pakistani players for their dissolute behaviour; the act that they did is worth a condemnation. And they should be punished for integrity issues. However, a little rationale thought will yeild a conclusion that it is not the "Pakistan" issue alone. It is about aspirations, desires, greed, jealousy, and so on. When their Indian counterparts are making fortunes playing the game of cricket, it is obvious that their hopes ride high too.

I heard during a discussion about "could there be an Indian link?" But of course, I mean are Indians not greedy, jealous, aspire to get-rich-overnight etc? And we have a history too. Our tainted cricketers are excused for lack of evidence and later also walk their way to the parliament. While the situation in Pakistan, nation as a whole, is worrysome (terrorism, lack of funds, poor governance, dark future of its citizens etc), the system in India is full of loopholes; and there are many who exploit that system. Cricketers of Pakistan have no one to look up to or look forward to, like what we have in India - BCCI, the richest cricket board in the world; they are banned from IPL and their authorities do nothing about. And thus these players adopt ill means to satisfy their aspirations.

It would be rather foolish to blame Pakistan alone and exciting to see how the top boss of ICC, the man who has made unimaginable fortune, reacts to the whole issue - and that establishes the Indian link.