After a great deal of drama and much fan-dancing, the Indian inquiry report has been released. And to say it is disquieting would be only stating the obvious. The report has placed a lot of these loose facts in context and that is disturbing. That's the question we're all asking this morning as details of the latest report into match fixing become apparent. Suddenly nobody is safe.
Every international cricketer stands on the brink of instant suspension.
One word from a bookmaker and whoosh - you're banned on the run. Only a fool would be sentimental about the game after the revelations of the last few months, but if the West Indies star batsman Brian Lara is found to have been involved in anything like match-fixing, then it would indeed be the sucker punch for many cricket lovers from the Caribbean and elsewhere. The scourge of Darrel Hair raised its head yet again for Sri Lanka, this time in distant Nairobi. Though timely intervention chopped the problem off, and we got it out of our hair, unfair charges were levelled by certain sections of the Australian media who sprang to Hair s defence. Hair-raising Stuff Darrell Hair is back in the news again.