Trust the stormy petrel of English cricket Kevin Petersen to unerringly hit the nail on it's head every single time and comment on seemingly controversial issues without pulling his punches or mincing his words.........
Following in his former team Graeme Swann's wake; Kevin quipped that disgraced Pakistani speedster Mohammad Aamir did not deserve a second chance or then an opportunity to redeem himself by playing cricket at the highest level as he had broken the sacrosanct eleventh and twelfth commandments of the game......
Taking on the powers that be within the ICC; Petersen raised questions about their so called wisdom and moral judgement in his weekly column in the Telegraphy and wondered why Aamir was given a second chance despite being found guilty of both match as well as spot fixing way back in 2010.........
He further went on to justify his unequivocal and unapologetic stance by remarking that Aamir's triumphant return to international cricket was both a travesty of justice as well as the laid down rules and procedures of the game as fellow cricketers had been handed life bans for seemingly trivial wrong doings in the past by these very same "wise" men........
While fully appreciating the fact that Aamir had risen from humble origins and the mind boggling sum of 50,000 pounds offered to him to ball no balls and wides must have seemed like a fortune to him at the time; Petersen alluded to the incontrovertible fact that Aamir was being more than adequately compensated for his exploits on the field by the Pakistan Cricket Board and hence his affinity for the big bucks and a lifestyle that was beyond his wildest dreams amounted to moral turpitude and an unforgivable betrayal of the trust and faith reposed in him by millions of Pakistani cricket fans and hence the ICC must revisit it's decision to let him return to international cricket after serving out his mandated five year ban..........
According to Petersen; Aamir's so called innocence and naivety could neither be mitigating circumstances or then grounds on which he could be let off with the proverbial slap on the knuckles as the apology of a sentence handed down to him would only spur other teenaged cricketers to follow in his less than illustrious footsteps rather than dissuading them from doing the same........
All yours truly can say in conclusion is that he more than shares Kevin Petersen's sentiments and opinion on the same issue and fervently believes that the ICC has only succeeded in giving a fillip or then shot in the arm to match fixers and the like by giving Mohammad Aamir a second lease of life.......
Following in his former team Graeme Swann's wake; Kevin quipped that disgraced Pakistani speedster Mohammad Aamir did not deserve a second chance or then an opportunity to redeem himself by playing cricket at the highest level as he had broken the sacrosanct eleventh and twelfth commandments of the game......
Taking on the powers that be within the ICC; Petersen raised questions about their so called wisdom and moral judgement in his weekly column in the Telegraphy and wondered why Aamir was given a second chance despite being found guilty of both match as well as spot fixing way back in 2010.........
He further went on to justify his unequivocal and unapologetic stance by remarking that Aamir's triumphant return to international cricket was both a travesty of justice as well as the laid down rules and procedures of the game as fellow cricketers had been handed life bans for seemingly trivial wrong doings in the past by these very same "wise" men........
While fully appreciating the fact that Aamir had risen from humble origins and the mind boggling sum of 50,000 pounds offered to him to ball no balls and wides must have seemed like a fortune to him at the time; Petersen alluded to the incontrovertible fact that Aamir was being more than adequately compensated for his exploits on the field by the Pakistan Cricket Board and hence his affinity for the big bucks and a lifestyle that was beyond his wildest dreams amounted to moral turpitude and an unforgivable betrayal of the trust and faith reposed in him by millions of Pakistani cricket fans and hence the ICC must revisit it's decision to let him return to international cricket after serving out his mandated five year ban..........
According to Petersen; Aamir's so called innocence and naivety could neither be mitigating circumstances or then grounds on which he could be let off with the proverbial slap on the knuckles as the apology of a sentence handed down to him would only spur other teenaged cricketers to follow in his less than illustrious footsteps rather than dissuading them from doing the same........
All yours truly can say in conclusion is that he more than shares Kevin Petersen's sentiments and opinion on the same issue and fervently believes that the ICC has only succeeded in giving a fillip or then shot in the arm to match fixers and the like by giving Mohammad Aamir a second lease of life.......
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