Mohammad Asif, the discarded pacer believes that Pakistan Cricket Board did not put their all possible efforts to save him and his fellows, Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir from lengthy bans.
The trio was handed lengthy bans of 10, five and seven years respectively by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for their alleged involvement in spot fixing. Last year Amir, Asif and Butt were alleged to have taken money from Mazhar Majeed, for throwing no-balls during the fourth Test against England.
“I am not blaming the PCB for what happened but certainly they and even the government could have done more to save us from such a long ban,” Asif said.
The spot-fixing incident of three cricketers was revealed by the News of World, after which they were suspended and were said to appear in the ICC anti-corruption tribunal.
“If the Board wanted, they could have stepped in when the spot fixing scandal broke out and handled things themselves...