The leading sports story this morning was the guilty verdict from the trial of the two Pakistani bowlers who had bowled no-balls to-order for betting purposes.
There has subsequently been much talk of the example that this set and how players would now be more reluctant to risk getting involved in the so-called spot-fixing. And great for the game this would be if it were so. What everybody seems to have conveniently forgotten is that it wasn't the ICB's anti-corruption team that exposed this cheating; it was the News Of The World tabloid that set up the sting to expose this racket. Ironically, that paper was axed as a result the telephone-hacking scandal. So, just who is going to keep cricket on the straight-and-narrow? The ICB?
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