In reply to Chris the Tall:
So what should have been a great advert for test cricket now goes down as the complete opposite. Feel very sorry for Broad and Trott - their magnificent acheivement is tarnished.
I feel much the same as I did a couple of years ago when Ricco (?) was thrown off the TDF after his magnicent stage win was shown to be drug-fuelled. You start to wonder how much you can believe. Is there a simple reason behind an extraordinary performance ?
OK slightly differant, since it wasn't the cheats doing the extraordinary performance, but there will always be the suspicion that they took the foot off the gas at crucial times.
Can't see how Amir or Asif can play again, does look pretty conclusive. Such a shame for Amir who showed fantastic talent. Yes innocent til proven guilty, but he's going to need one amazing explanation.
One final point - how desperate do you have to be to be betting on when a no-ball is bowled. Outcome, next wicket, highest scorer etc, all that I can understand (though never been a fan of gambling) but this is as pathetic as betting on drops of rain on a window. No sympathy with bookies accepting such bets either, but it's surely it's going to be very obvious when it's rigged if figures of £150,000 are involved ?
And don't get me started of the tactics of the Murdoch press....