All players went through a ban period
Whether one was good or bad in your view is your view
Unless there is a clause in pcb or icc rules which specifically forbids some players, Butt is entitled to same consideration as any other
The court of public opinion still exists, additionally what irks me is when people say it’s all the same. It isn’t, it’s like saying a Major in the Nazi army has the same level of responsibility and guilt as Hitler.
It also completely ignores what level of remorse has been shown. Cricinfo summed it up best when they said Amir was remorseless, Asif was indifferent and Butt was defiant.
Don’t you feel wronged, that a person who apologised only because he was sorry he was caught, disgraced this nation and worse lied about it till the bitter end and blamed global conspiracies is now acting so entitled despite having such an average career?
Plus this is all ignoring the fact that Butt was medicore player overall.
All 3 of them were given the same verdict, the same ban of 5 years... so the court saw their offense as the same...
this false attempt to glorify Amir is considered negligible in court.. all of them were let go off, and allowed to resume cricketing activities in the same time
Which means all 3 were equally complicit
There are level of complicity and pointing that out isn’t glorifying Amir.
secondly their penalties were not the same. Butt and Asif were given suspended sentences on top of their 5 years bans, that’s still recorded and signifies greater guilt. Second, they all got varying jail terms. I don’t call that the same, do you?
Justice Cooke didn’t let Amir get away that everything was due to influence from Butt, but he did say the following
in paragraph 20 when in regard to Butt
It is clear to me that you were the orchestrator of this activity, as you had to be, as Captain
then again
As I have already said, you bear the major responsibility for the corrupt activities, along with Majeed. The evidence of the text exchange between you and Majeed in the West Indies in May 2010 shows your involvement in such activities outside the scope of the period covered by the indictment.
paragraph 23
I consider that you were responsible for involving Amir in the corruption
paragraph 24
Not only were you involved but you involved others and abused your position as captain and leader in doing so, bringing to bear your considerable influence on Amir at the very least
Addressing Amir
Paragraph 35
You have pleaded guilty to the same two offences as those of which Asif has been convicted. I give you full credit for that plea, which the Prosecution accepts was entered at the first real opportunity. Following the ICC arbitration in Doha, where you contested the allegations, you made it clear to the cricket authorities that you accepted your responsibility for what you had done, despite the situation in which you found yourself where, it seems, activity such as this was widespread. It took courage to do so, as appears from the information I have been given about pressures you faced.
Again he doesn’t let Amir completely off the hook and blame it all on Butt, however tell me again its all the same ?
We shouldn’t be rolling out the carpet for mediocre 31 year old, who is only sorry that he got caught, and is the biggest culprit.
He could actually be Saeed Anwar reborn, and if still behaved the same way butt did i would say the same.
If Amir didn’t accept guilt until every option was exhausted and then we he did say sorry , did it so begrudgingly it was offensive I’d say the same thing.
it’s for the same reason i don’t want Asif back even if he takes a 100 domestic wickets in the following season ( and he wasn’t as bad as Butt)
otherwise you will rot in domestic.
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