Is the ban imposed on Sharjeel Khan harsh, fair or lenient?

[ask_analyse_act]

Didn't notice your post, sorry for the delay.

I don't want to bring IPL here for obvious reasons & the context is different. Still, since you brought the example, be honest with yourself & all the stories that we have learned regarding IPL, it's owners & serial betting is several matches - in an ideal world, entire IPL should have been scrapped by now after 2012 & 2013 events. But, again the counter argument is, not every such allegations are true & can't be proved - so, IPL gets benefit of doubt.

For SK'd case, I actually am not sure at what extent he was involved - they brought some former cricketers to measure if he had blocked those balls on merit or not, and most of them confessed that the ball was played on merit - then we go back to initial argument - he didn't report, he accepted money..... If there was concrete evident, there was no point bringing batting experts, neither you need to run the trial for 7 months.

Going through all the events, what I feel is that SK was involved at some level of dishonesty - either he was too greedy or he was entrapped, but either they caught him at initial stages, or he himself tried to jail break. In that regard, I feel, punishing him financially was the best solution, for his first offense.

Never think that I am writing this, because he is an integral part of PAK team; rather what I feel is that the guy is been used as a scarecrow and some people are trying to show credibility at the cost of a big fish cricketer, who comes from relatively a small town & from Sindhi speaking community. If he was caught red handed with evidence, I actually don't think even PCB could have saved him, had they wished so, but here I am not so sure. Besides, the profile of the 3 people judging are not fair - two of them are long term PCB beneficiary & they are not technically qualified enough to run such trials.

Anyway, SK will go to appeal Court, and PCB should have to submit exhibits for the case. If so, may be he should suffer the penalty; but still I won't support banning players for corruption in T20 leagues, which is owned, financed & run by questionable people with dodgy source of money. Fixing matches in International matches - the whole equation changes & probably it would have gone beyond PCB's hand.

Got to know from one of the threads here in pp that both Latif and SK were suspected to be involved in 1 int'l match too as per the report from ECB anti corruption unit. Not sure is it an allegation or a sure thing.

 

[mueez14]

He should have been banned for lifetime..this 2.5 yeaars is linient...we have to start banning lifetime the culprits..so that others stay away from it... if 20 year old does fixing and earns million dollars.. then he gets caught and returns after 2.5 years at the age of 22 or 23 like amir did even after serving 5 years ban.. then there is no big issue...we should discourage fixing by imposing life bans and finishing culprits' careers..so that everyone thinks thousands times before risking whole career...this is rubbish if 1 knows he will return after 2 to 3 to 4 years in worst scenario of getting caught.. and one who can do fixing in leagues will definitely do it in his country team..disloyalty is in character..not in leagues or teams.. a charaterful person will never do this doesn't matter wjat the stage is..this is rubbish that he hasn't done it in pak team so we should be linient...my stance is that even if a player gets caught in some other country league..then evem the board of that player should life ban him if proved guilty...this is only way to stop or atleast reduce curruption in cricket.. ZERO TOLERANCE