It’s just not cricket ( tell it to Pakistan's cricket boss)

The Pakistan national cricket team have been disgraceful hosts. Unable to play in their own country because it is convulsed by terrorism, England threw Pakistan a lifeline, as well as hoping to energise many British people of Pakistani descent to follow cricket.
But far from being gracious and grateful, it seems (though the allegations are yet to be proven concretely) that the representatives of Pakistan have engaged in cheating – against England, fans and the game. With more allegations following of further collusion in underhand gambling by other players who were not suspended for the one day tour, the reaction by Ijaz Butt, the head of Pakistani cricket, is not contrition but to throw muck all around, accusing English players of bringing the game into ignominy. Clarifying his comments, the eejit Butt said it was just what he had heard among bookies (and what was he doing in their company?) and was not his own opinion but that he stood by everything he had said. This is the equivalent of inviting a family over for a party, but there is some evidence that members of the family are involved in something illegal; you raise it with the father and his response is not to collar the supposedly guilty party and offer his apologies – instead he spits in your wife’s face
Unless Butt produces evidence of England wrong-doing or submits a humble apology, England should cancel what remains of the one-day series for having such an unsubstantiated stain on their character. Talking of corruption among Pakistani players, a scandal just as large is how an improper person like Butt got into the position he is in. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
In the film Dr Strangelove, a mad American air force general launches – on his own initiative – a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The reason is because he is impotent. He deduces that it is not the workings of his own body at fault, rather the international communist conspiracy that is to blame. For Butt, it is a western conspiracy that is laying Pakistani cricket low, not the alleged actions of the national team’s dressing room. However, unless the rule of law and fair play is followed, all of cricket is rendered impotent.