The ECB is not Commenting
And quite rightly so, given the latest allegations from the head of the Pakistani Cricket Board; Ijaz Butt. This is what MIke Selvey says The Guardian.
Actually, what he is suggesting, in his hamfisted, truculent way, is that if Pakistan players can get accused of malpractice whenever they underperform, then how about a taste of your own medicine when it is England, not Pakistan, who lose five wickets for 17 runs and with it the game. It is a pathetic yah-boo response, of course, and childish when there have been serious issues raised these past few weeks, but that is all it is. However spiteful it might seem, we should really take no notice of Mr Butt.
Nor should we just accept the latest fixing story at face value, for there are chancers out there, and not just those who would try to bend matches and incidents. There might be a fast buck to be made by someone who could pass off a tale: it has been tried before. This particular story, one in which it is said the outcome, or rather elements of the Pakistan innings on Friday, were known in advance, ought to be treated with a little more suspicion than appears to have been the case with those who simply interpret what they read as gospel without thinking it through.
I hope that we don’t invite the Pakistani cricketers again for several years, as they and their officials are really devaluing this so-called series of matches.
I might watch some of the match today and I hope that England win by a country mile.
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