'Spot-fixers should be fined, not banned' - News - Cricket Next
New Delhi: Pointing out the difference between spot-fixing and match-fixing, the former Pakistan captain Imran Khan said that both terms are different and should not be mixed.
While talking to CNN-IBN, the captain of the World Cup winning side said, "Spot-fixing is not throwing away the complete match but match-fixing is just that."
"By bowling no-balls and playing a maiden over does not affect the outcome of the game but in the match-fixing the whole team deliberately gets involved and change the outcome of the game," he added.
The former Pakistan skipper were also not in favour of a life ban to players involved in spot-fixing and said players involved should be dealt seriously and imposing heavy fines and not life ban.
"There should be some definite amount of ban given but not life ban for the players who are involved in spot-fixing", Imran said.
"Crime does not pay, so the players who are involved in spot-fixing should be fined heavily. There should be huge fine so that players suffer financially and it should hurt their pockets," he added.
The cricketer-turned politician Imran also said that the new way of fixing is just a way to make money in short span of time and it is extremely difficult to spot.
"Spot-fixing is just the way of making quick money and it is impossible to find out, so the players should be fined heavily and maybe a limited ban should be imposed but not a life ban."
Talking about match-fixing, he told, "he was more concerned about the allegations where the whole Pakistan team deliberately threw the Sydney Test match in January against Australia."
Former Pakistan great continued by saying that back in 1993 when the first match-fixing matter came up with the Pakistan board, it should have been dealt in a better way.
"In 1993 when the the enquiry happened, if the enquiry had been followed right through the end, if the right measures had been taken and they would have tried to reach the root cause of the problem, Pakistan cricket won't have been facing this problem", he added.