Let the past cricketers salvage this sinking ship

Someone once pronounced that the ICC is a toothless tiger, but, we kept screaming out aloud, not once, not twice, but on several occasions, that the tiger was on the prowl. Now that the predator is in town and is in the business of devouring those who opted to challenge its authority of the stripe, there is calamity. The bad side of the story is that we are aware there would be more victims of this purge and they, too, would be felled one-by-one.

The latter part of a rather manic Monday was rudely brought to a halt, with the delivery of the ICC's fourteen- day notice on champion Lankan cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya on corruption charges. From that point onwards, the remaining hours turned topsy turvy.

A long-distance call to my phone alerted me that more heads would roll, and for those who know instances of withholding information on match-fixing, were kindly asked to get in touch with the Anti- Corruption Unit ( ACU) authorities, just to save their souls and for the continuation of this game that has held us spellbound for more than a century now.

The ICC's ACU was on the prowl for some time now. Sometimes, we knew they were in the city chatting with alleged miscreants, asking for their whereabouts and hidden applications and files. As we learned, it was a thorough job and they tried their utmost to leave no stone unturned.

Now, justice will take its course and the miscreants be severely punished.

We, at this juncture, deem it fit