Strict penalties would end cricket corruption: Miandad

KARACHI: Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has said that players who are convicted of fixing should be handed strict penalties so that others stay away from corrupt practices.

“If they are found guilty, give them death penalties,” said Miandad. “If you give such punishments, no one will dare do that again,” he argued.

“If you let corrupt players join the team again, say after five or seven years, who will take it seriously? Players would think they would return to the team after a few years,” the former batsman said. 

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been criticised by several former cricketers for allowing pacer Mohammad Amir to join the team. Amir, Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were convicted of spot-fixing and served jail terms in England.   

Miandad further said that players in other top cricket-playing nations did not get involved in corrupt practices because they had dealt strictly with corrupt players in the past. “It is time we started setting examples,” he said.