Interesting comments from Vaughan who has watched the documentary basically saying that if this was another country then we would be jumping up and down and demanding immediate action.
Obviously though as they are our guys they must be innocent....
I have no idea whether there is or isn't any truth in any of it but to dismiss it because we think that our players are nice blokes or have strong beliefs in an invisible man are naive to say the least.
I grew up watching Jim'll fix it every saturday night, listened to Blair tell us we needed to go to war as we were going to be massacred with WMD's and saw the main stream media, police and government cover-up the Hillsborough fiasco for 20 years (this list could go on). I generally don't believe much of what I see and try to form my own opinions based on evidence.
You would think that the English players are paid enough that they would be less likely to be enticed by cash than poorer cricketing nations - the sums being talked about weren't vast in pro-sport terms, 50k here or there. Current England players are better advised and educated that many of those who have been dragged into match fixing. Amir for example was young, poor, stupid, naive and very vulnerable - England players don't really fit this description. If I wanted to get an england player to do something dodgy I would think bribery would be an option - set up some cameras and get a few compromising videos of married players with hookers etc. Or perhaps even darker threats to family members etc. The people involved according to the documentary are some of the worlds most dangerous and violent mafia members so nothing would be off the table I guess and I doubt they take no for an answer.
Is it hard to believe that a batsman wouldn't deliberately score slowly for a brief period if time in a test match when we know that the Australian Vice Captain was willing and able to encourage a young team member to take sand paper onto the field of play to deliberately alter the condition of the match ball?
If a senior player in a top test playing nation is willing to do this is it that hard to believe that someone would potentially ask a player to bat a bit slower than normal for 10 overs?
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