All the allegations against them were said to be true, they have faced the result! It’s been officially announced that Salman Butt will be facing 30 months in jail while Mohammad Asif has been sentenced 12 months of imprisonment and lastly Mohammad Amir is slammed with 6 months of jail time! Why? They were charged with spot fixing, which means that every action a player takes, if a bet is kept against it, it’s called spot fixing, for the match held in 2010 at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

So much was said, so much is written against this, but what happened in the end? They have been punished at last. Media is showing the players’ families in grief, which is just cruelty against humanity. Playing with emotions is not the message to be given out!

According to public opinion, ’it’s a pure fair decision, its individual’s fault, these players are corrupt and we as a nation suffered because of them’.

Butt being a senior player and captain at that time should have more responsibility regarding this! When he returns, he should be punished by the PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) as well!

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I am very upset. And, the reason quite simple – Younis Khan’s resignation. I mean what it is with PCB? Are they insane?

I mean how can they blame him – just merely on Indian media’s assumptions?

After all, isn’t he our national hero? For the past few months I have witnessed a remarkable uplift in our cricket team’s morale and of course, their performance, and much of this is due to tireless efforts of the man himself – Younis Khan.

It isn’t fair that to blame the man, just because the media on the other side of the border is basing their assumptions on heresy.  And, all this, I believe, is that since their own national team performed so badly against our heroes that they have dropped down to such depths as to promote negative news about our team.

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By Anjum Niaz

The first time I saw Ejaz Butt was more than half a century ago. Earlier this year I saw him again. I was seized with the sea change that age, fatigue and stress had wrought on the man who ruled over hearts at the Lahore Stadium, long before Zulfikar Ali Bhutto renamed it the ‘Gaddafi Stadium.’ Butt made a picture-perfect pose when he batted. A ball once smacked his face giving him a bloody nose. The whole stadium stood up in hushed silence. We cried.

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