Time for ICC to show some spine

Writing in the National Dileep Premachandran says that the spot-fixing verdict tomorrow, involving Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer, will prove how serious the ICC, the world cricket's governing body, is to rid cricket of corruption.

If two potentially great careers – Butt was unlikely to be one for the pantheon – are ended or stalled, it will be a sad day for cricket. But after the impotence of the past decade and more, it is time the game stood up for itself.