ICC is to be blamed here, before WI issue, and now ball tempering in england was made into a big international controversy and english ball tempering was ignored from the roots,cricket standard is no wonder going down Pakistan should boycott completely . And now this:
Match Fixing in India , ICC and BCCI:
KARACHI: The cricket community in Pakistan has lashed out at ICC
president and the BCCI for their refusals to investigate claims by former India player Vinod Kambli that the 1996 World Cup semifinal against Sri Lanka may have been fixed.
"This is a former India player making a serious accusation and yet even Sharad Pawar in his capacity as ICC president has dismissed the issue outright which is strange," former
captain Rashid Latif said.
"I don't see what is wrong in holding an investigation even if Kambli has
come out with claims after 15 years. If there was no hanky panky in the
match what has the BCCI have to fear," Latif said.
ICC president had earlier said that that if Kambli was a honest and committed
cricketer, he should have told about everything he knew then, but he kept
quiet.
The BCCI also said that they didn't see any need to take the allegations by
Kambli seriously and would not investigate his accusations.
"Kambli today has come out in the open because now after our three
players were jailed by a court there is renewed confidence that people
responsible for fixing and corruption can be punished. In the past different
boards and authorities have tried to play down this serious problem and
brush it under the match that is why no cricketer had the confidence to
come out if he knew something or suspected something," Latif said.
He said the quick reaction of the Indian board and President only showed
just how other boards were not willing to accept their players could be
involved in corruption and this was not a problem restricted to Pakistan.
Former captain, Moin Khan also expressed surprise at the BCCI and
ICC's reaction.
He said while Kambli's decision to come out with his allegations was
questionable but at the same time they were serious allegations and
could not be ignored.
"How can the BCCI say it will not investigate the matter and even
ICC should be clear about his priorities," Khan said.
Former Test player, Iqbal Qasim said the way the Indian board and the ICC
tried to ignore Kambli highlighted the bias in international cricket.
"It is now obvious that there are different set of rules for Pakistanis and
other countries especially India and I think our board needs to take a lesson
from this," the former spinner said.
Former Test pacer, Sarfaraz Nawaz said both the ICC and BCCI, after the
recent spot-fixing trial, were scared that more corruption scandals would
come out if they investigated the claims by Kambli.
"Don't forget Kambli is talking about a match where India was captained by a
man Mohammad Azharuddin who was later banned for life for fixing and yet
the Indians are not willing to take the issue seriously. It shows their double
standards," he said.