2 Cs of Pakistan: Cricket and Crime

It is being said 2 Cs are always out and loud in Pakistan Cricket and Crime. But we have seen a disastrous fusion of these 2Cs in the spot-fixing scandal.

Every cricketing country will have thrown up crimes of greater financial magnitude than this in the last 12 months, and Pakistan is particularly culpable. If a politician had done this, it wouldn't even have made it to the news but Sports make people win and lose, they laugh and they cry, but they strive at all times. That is why what Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif have done evokes sadness and disillusionment in far greater measure than the financial implications of their act.

But sportsmen come from the same society as everyone else. Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals. As an actor is good at delivering lines, a painter at creating art out of an empty canvas, so too are sportsmen at playing sport. We must expect no more.

In fairness, though, sportsmen attain fame far earlier than people do in almost any other profession. Raw youth is thrust onto a public stage and expected to be mature and discerning. Often, therefore, One of the reasons we study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Administrations will have to be particularly diligent. In fact, a solid man at the head of the PCB could actually use this case to turn Pakistan cricket around to teach ethical and moral values to sports stars. Make them understand Sports has higher values than few bucks.And I think it is important, too, to remember that there are people who have said no to dubious money. It is a star that those with character can wear proudly. Hopefully that list will always be bigger than that in the Hall of Shame.

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