Should Aamer's 5 Year ban be lifted or reduced now ?

February 2, 2012 6:55am CST
He already has paid a huge amount (All the respect he got, 3 months in prison, huge amount as fine and probably his confidence and form)i know ther were cricketers who are still facing a life ban but they alreday had achieved so much in cricket. But aamer is just a 19 years old youngster and didn't play much cricket . in my opinion his ban duration must be reduced to 2 years ...so he will be able to lplay for pakistan in the next world cup.
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tarachand
@tarachand (3895)
• India
3 Feb 12
The fact that materialism has replaced cricketing ethics is evident from the fact that a person so young has been corrupted. A similar judgment should be passed on all corrupt cricketers and the entire value chain in the cricket world (and maybe in all sport), irrespective of color. There should be Zero tolerance as far corruption in sports is concerned. I don't think that Aamer should ever be allowed to play cricket in his life. Sports need to be cleared up of corruption at every level, and unfortunately, there is high corruption at every level in sport in the world, including in the Indian sub-continent countries - India, Pakistan, Bangla Desh and Sri Lanka. However, I do want to make a point that there are different types of judgments for different skin colors. While I do agree that the cricketing and legal authorities have been rather harsh on a fellow brown man, and deservedly so, I am sure that if there was a white or black player involved, the cricket and the legal authorities would be far more lenient. Here is my reasoning - lenient on the blacks, because the whites have to assuage their consciences for the atrocities meted out by the whites on a backward race (black), and on the whites because they are their own people. Unfortunately, when a brown man is in a position of power, his way of working is different, he will try and prove his fairness of judgment by being harsher on a fellow brown and taking it lightly on the whites because he wants to show the whites his magnanimity in forgiving the atrocities meted out to him by the whites, he will be partial to the black to show that he is merciful. In the case of a black in authority - he tends to ram the browns in consonance with his white 'massas' and be lenient towards them to prove that he has forgiven the whites for the atrocities that the whites have committed on his race. The world tends to ignore that atrocities on the browns or the atrocities of the blacks on other blacks and on all races throughout African and black history. Sorry if I digressed too much.