“Corruption will continue till PCB sets an example”: Shahid Afridi

TIL Desk Sports/ Flamboyant allrounder Shahid Afridi believes that until the PCB sets a proper example, the menace of players being linked to spot-fixing and corruption cannot be stopped in Pakistan cricket. Afridi told in Dubai during the Pakistan Super League that he was very sad and disappointed after the latest scandal in which Pakistani batsmen Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif were flown back under the PCB’s Anti-Corruption Code.

The PCB said that the ICC’s ACU and its own ACU were carrying out more investigations against the two players who were in the Islamabad United franchise. “What can I say I have been saying in the past also that until the PCB sets or makes an example of such players it will be difficult to stop this menace,” Afridi said. “To me it is the same situation because you are allowing tainted players back into cricket,” he said.

Afridi said he would want to see the PCB bar such tainted players from all cricket including domestic. “What is the use if after five years the same players are coming back. I don’t think this can be stopped until the right example is set,” he added. The PCB in 2015 pushed the ICC to allow tainted left-arm pacer Mohammad Aamir to resume playing cricket even before his five-year ban for spot-fixing ended in September 2015.