It takes some guts to come up with stories like these and full points to the journalist. However, one gets the feeling that there is more to it and so why dont we go on and uncover the murkiness in its full gory details? Azhar is already paying the price for his misdemeanour or whatever little of it. Wed now like to see the lid off some other big names whose names have regularly featured in this dark corridor of Indian cricket---SG, a certain Sachin, etc. Its obvious that while doing what he did, Azhar had stepped on some big feet in Indian cricket establishment and paid the price for it. Only when you blow the cover off these, will it be true investigative journalism.
Hi, Azaruddin is guilty - says Outlook magazine. This story has made such headlines that even NDTV had a program based on this where it was a sheer mockery of media and its expertise. I think NDTV should first find a different host and a different guest. The host lisps and the guest should be doing something in his constituency. Just thinking of the money that is being spent by various media groups in covering the story and flagging a cricketer who might have made a mistake or is just a scapegoat, is 100 times more than whatever money was offered by all bookies to all cricketers!! BCCI fixes tournaments, prepares dead pitches and crores of rupees are bid by the TV channels and the magazines get all the ads, but since Outlook is one more struggling magazine, stories like these are important just like Indian Express story on Tendulkar (which probably sold out) and Wisden. Instead of guiding the public, which media fails miserably (due to our short memories) only stories like these will sell and remain in our minds. How many of us, including the writer of the story have been honest all our lives to accuse Azar. How much did he pay the cop for the story? Honesty!! I must say..
People like azhar and whoever fixed matches are a disgrace on sportsmanship and have played a big joke to the sentiments and sensibilities of Indian cricket fans like us who like mad people look at a (fixed) act going on field and get excited.
Azhar should be stripped of all his national and international records and should be banned from any kind of association with cricket. Same applies to whoever found guilty.
