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Justice and
Cricket suffered in Shoaib-Asif case! |
A Feature by Syed Ahsan Ali
on July 06, 2007
 Two
key personalities in Pakistan cricket -
Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif got
vindicated recently from allegations of
drug usage for performance enhancement.
For a Pakistani like me, it is an
occasion where we all should move on
happily because our stance on the whole
issue has come clean, but I don’t know
why I do not feel too confident about
the verdict and the handling of the
whole saga.
Making way for the two devastating
bowlers in the world will make far more
formidable unit for the Pakistan which
means more easy victories if they get
their act right with balls in their
hands. But feeling and acceptance of the
presence of drugs in the game and then
getting away with it because WADA’s
jurisdiction does not allow it to
intervene or proceed with any other
litigation against the two pace-men
because PCB is not liable to it because
they have not signed that clause of the
agreement, then who will fell the pinch?
Definitely if you look at it closely the
load has to be borne by none other than
the game of cricket.
 The
Game of Cricket is suffering whether it is
match-fixing, ball-tampering, drug testing or
anything else. It is the game which finds
usually itself on the wrong end of the things.
Both fast bowlers have to hear some sledging or
remarks that contain contempt on the playing
fields against them but nothing more than that.
If they do it then they should have been
punished as law states but getting away with
such allegedly horrendous wrong doing just
because the case does not fall in WADA’s
jurisdiction is not the solution we all were
looking for.
I am happy that we get back our two most potent
bowlers who can rip through any batting line up
apart, but I would have been lot happier if they
had been in the team after getting cleared from
any doubts or misconceptions. Murali is playing
after getting a clean bill of health from
throwing experts after numerous tests and
sessions with laboratories. Shane Warne got back
on the field after spending his punishment with
dignity and grace. But these fast bowlers are
free because the law does not have hands to
capture them and that is not the way to go about
it at all. The way we (our cricket boards all
around the world) are protecting our cricketers
because they are egg-laying hens doesn’t allow
us to say or release these statements that we
are doing all of this for the sake of game’s
betterment!
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