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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2014 13:42:44 GMT
Could they be reprieved as the CPS looks again at 25 convictions obtained by the entrapment methods of the News Of The World's Fake Sheikh,Mazher Mahmood ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30332040
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Post by deepextracover on Dec 5, 2014 10:19:30 GMT
Lets hope so. Amir would be brilliant as an overseas when Magoffin becomes English.
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Post by flashblade on Dec 5, 2014 10:25:52 GMT
Hang on a minute, these guys were caught cheating, and I believe have subsequently owned up. I think we need to maintain zero tolerance for fixing.
Deepextracover - are you advocating leniency just because someone's a class cricketer?
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Post by hhsussex on Dec 5, 2014 10:37:14 GMT
Hang on a minute, these guys were caught cheating, and I believe have subsequently owned up. I think we need to maintain zero tolerance for fixing. Deepextracover - are you advocating leniency just because someone's a class cricketer? I think there could be an argument for rehabilitation rather than leniency in the case of Ameer, particularly if the actions of Mazher Mahmood in this case are subsequently shown to have been entrapment. Ameer was much younger and less worldly than his teammates, and it could be said that their involvement might have swayed him into thinking it was OK. As it is he has served his jail sentence and should be able to get on with his life. If he is genuinely contrite and can act as a role model to other young cricketers, a kind of awful warning, then he might be what the game needs to fight back against the corruption. Mind you, I'd like to see many senior figures from most of the cricket boards behind bars as a quid pro quo: the dupes of Stanford, the cronies of Srinivasan, those who turn a blind eye while the media moguls fill their pockets at the expense of destroying the game; all of those who bleat sanctimoniously about the dreadful scandal of betting while they profit either financially or by the further expansion of their swollen self-esteem and smugness.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2014 11:18:07 GMT
I have much sympathy for Ameer/Amir who was a 17 year old kid and was more or less instructed by his captain in his wrong-doing.
In any case, regardless of the CPS reviewing the conviction, his ICC ban expires next September and he will be able to return to cricket - and quite possibly before then as the ICC is currently discussing a reduction in his ban.I look forward to seeing him back and hope he can rebuild his career.
He was the only one of the three who pleaded guilty and apparently he also gave his ill-gotten gains to his mum and dad, which suggests he is not a wicked and incorrigible criminal who is beyond redemption and could be the kind of reformed role model hh suggests.
What he did was wrong - but he ain't Ched Evans.
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