Cricket & Corruption

Well, everybody would accept that corruption in a game is absolutely destroys its lifeline, fair competition. It's absolutely ridiculous to even think that players do not play for their potential due to the greediness for money, especially even when they represent their country. Why? people would ask. How, when, where prosecutors would ask but no body would try to understand or address the underline cause.

Especially in third world countries, most of the times the whole system is corrupted and money sometimes govern everything, even sometimes the top rulers' decisions. Unfortunately, there is no exception for Sri Lanka as well.

If the corruption exist from top of the state to the down, why we expect sportsmen alone to be clean, why only Cricketers??? no. Even they would also think that they need to capitalize the opportunity. How many people are clearly clean enough to stand against those acts. I would say, it would be far lower than we even can imagine.

Therefore, I believe if we want to stop corruption to penetrate in to the game we love, we need to raise the voice and act against any form of corruption and make it a principal policy that all political groups would have to adopt. I think we have very short time to witness even Sri Lankan team also to be in the spotlight of corruption. Therefore, if we love the game, let's try as we can to stop corruption in our country which would be a small step but collectively would be a giant leap.

Sri Lanka, zindabad!!!!!