Indeed, such was the ferocity of the response from the likes of Sir Ian Botham and Darren Gough that one could have been forgiven for wondering if that aforementioned triumvirate had been convicted of stealing from an orphanage or blowing up a bus-load of nuns. Actually, they conspired to bowl a few no-balls in a cricket match. Which isn’t quite the end of civilisation as we know it.
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Punitive action could mean odds will no longer favour the cheats
The hang-em and flog-em brigade were in full cry following the jail sentences of between six and 30 months handed down to the Pakistan trio, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.
