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Why the NOTW’s sting was justified
In the Guardian , Roy Greenslade explains why he thinks the News of the World sting which led to the breaking of the spot-fixing controversy was justified. Was there a genuine public interest in exposing (alleged) sporting corruption? I like sport and I like cricket
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Why the NOTW’s sting was justified
Tags: breaking, Entertainment, fixed-because, genuine-public, less-important, miscellaneous, passion, readily-concede, recent-years, the-spot-fixing, world
Go for the bigger fish
What happens next could finally rid the game of the spectre of corruption and prove that the International Cricket Council really are capable of running the world game strongly and efficiently, writes Nasser Hussain in the Daily Mail .
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Go for the bigger fish
Tags: council, evidence-looks, geoff-boycott, international, might-as-well, mohammad-aamer, nasser-hussain, pakistan, police, salman-butt, security
Cracks in Pakistan’s class divide
Cricket has drawn Pakistani society together but now shows apparently disparate elements are more similar than people think, writes Osman Samiuddin for the Observer . Cricketers have come from places much smaller than Asif and Amir, from poorer backgrounds, and gone through entire lives – let alone a career – without a scandal to stain them. Pakistan’s players do not get paid as much as counterparts around the world, it is being said.
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Cracks in Pakistan’s class divide
Tags: australia, background, country, gideon-haigh, india, indian, indian-premier, life, music, osman-samiuddin, pakistan, pakistan cricket, such-as-banks, unique-category, youth
Cracks in Pakistan’s class divide
Cricket has drawn Pakistani society together but now shows apparently disparate elements are more similar than people think, writes Osman Samiuddin for the Observer . Cricketers have come from places much smaller than Asif and Amir, from poorer backgrounds, and gone through entire lives – let alone a career – without a scandal to stain them. Pakistan’s players do not get paid as much as counterparts around the world, it is being said
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Cracks in Pakistan’s class divide
Tags: background, country, gideon-haigh, india, indian-premier, music, osman-samiuddin, pakistan, pakistan cricket
Tale of the sting
The News of the World sting has turned the cricketing world upside down and made match fixing topic du jour once again.
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Tale of the sting
Tags: betting/corruption, black, breaks-it-down, cricketing, flood-the-scene, pakistan, ready-schedule, reliability, scene, Sports, table, team-pretended, the-reliability, world
Where are you, Pakistan?
Osman Samiuddin, writing in the Crest , traces the history of some of the present problems afflicting Pakistan cricket to a pay dispute between the players and the board in 1976. The relationship between board and player was reversed so that players, for long servants, became masters
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Where are you, Pakistan?
Tags: close-the-door, country, Education, faith, history, made-the-player, osman-samiuddin, pakistan, Sports, spread-the-game, tackle-the-ogre
Domestic cricket should be mandatory for India’s stalwarts
India’s top players should play more domestic cricket so that the juniors can learn from them, says Makarand Waingankar in the Hindu . He recalls the era when national team stars used to regularly turn out for their state and club sides and feels the Australian approach of making domestic cricket mandatory is worth emulating. Teenager Dilip Vengsarkar learned more about batting watching Gavaskar from the other end for Dadar Union than listening to a dozen coaches.
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Domestic cricket should be mandatory for India’s stalwarts
Tags: australian, dadar-union, former-india, india, madhav-apte, making-domestic, recalls-the-era, stalwarts, teenager-dilip, the-stalwarts, toured-the-west, until-the-age
Cricket feels burden of proof
With criminal convictions looking increasingly unlikely, the game’s corruption unit will pick up the investigation into the Pakistan betting scandal, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian .
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Cricket feels burden of proof
Tags: australia, bbc, bowling, game, international, news, night, players, time, tour
A chance for Pietersen to regain the swagger
Mike Selvey writes in the Guardian that while Kevin Pietersen’s rapid descent “from Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval in the blink of an eye” is quite shocking, the county break will give him a chance to regain his swagger before the Ashes. In Pietersen we have someone whose cricket is almost driven by the internal engine of his ego. No one can match his strut
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A chance for Pietersen to regain the swagger
Tags: bowling-nemesis, confidence, english cricket, internal, made-it-plain, personal, pietersen, quite-shocking, worcestershire
Sinister, extraordinary and heartbreaking
While there is an understandable desire for swift resolution, the complexity of the spot-fixing case and the need to get any punishments absolutely spot on means that the ICC must take its time here, writes Rob Smyth in the Guardian .
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Sinister, extraordinary and heartbreaking
Tags: australasia, career, cricketers, history, imran-khan, match, media, mustafa-qadri, night, overwhelming, team