I don't know why I stopped writing blogs. I had many issues in my mind to scribe. May be I was not organised self to do that or the inherent laziness would have pulled me out. Couple of years passed since my first blog which was on cricket betting that shook the lovers of cricket in to despair and dismay.The recent news on that heartened me that both convicted players , Salman Butt and Mohammed Asif, they not only admitted the spot betting but they apologized to the public for their wrong doings. This made me think the Pakistani angle again ,whatever I read about the Pakistan democracy and judiciary was always depicted as mockery or sub standard or controlled by the all powerful Army, but these incident made me to think otherwise. Here in India many players and owners of IPL have been accused of spot fixing and match fixing but none of them are convicted so far, though they were barred from international cricket still those who cheated the cricket lovers and tarnished game are still in power, one even made as MP that too in ruling party and he even made as the president of another sports organization and other people walk around freely and no case are pending against them in courts. We always talk high about our democracy ,judiciary and our human right records and too often compare with Pakistani systems.Anyway at least in cricket it is different. Recently another IPL spot fixing case came out and media just celebrated it for some days and depicted the players involved in the case are culprits as they got the details of phone calls and video footage showing as they are involved in it the and players were remanded to judicial custody for a week or so. Lets see what will happen next few months of time . Now the same media started glorifying the some of the players. The the face saving work by BCCI and the police authorities will not stop the betting in cricket, since the powerful people are involved and the cricketers they follow their all powerful owners in betting.
What happened to us even Pakistan could do this much why can't our celebrated democratic systems couldn't do anything, may be the money and the political power involved the game are above everything.
What happened to us even Pakistan could do this much why can't our celebrated democratic systems couldn't do anything, may be the money and the political power involved the game are above everything.
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