{"id":10309,"date":"2016-07-15T06:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2016-07-15T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T06:42:27","slug":"mark-boucher-agrees-with-kps-stand-on-life-ban-for-fixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/mark-boucher-agrees-with-kps-stand-on-life-ban-for-fixers\/","title":{"rendered":"MARK BOUCHER AGREES WITH KP\u2019s STAND ON LIFE BAN FOR FIXERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/220px-Markboucher-1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Markboucher\" width=\"544\" height=\"770\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The talk around Mohammad Amir\u2019s Test comeback at the Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground has been whether tainted cricketers should be given a second chance or is it too serious a crime to be given a second life. A lot of current and former cricketers including England\u2019s Kevin Pietersen have expressed their opinions. KP in his recent article for The Telegraph was clear that in his opinion anyone caught match or spot-fixing should be banned for life. Former South African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher tweeted to say that he completely agrees with Pietersen\u2019s opinion. Mark Boucher tweeted :<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good article <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KP24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KP24<\/a>! Honest opinion that I fully agree with! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aHVYw56wlx\">https:\/\/t.co\/aHVYw56wlx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Boucher (@markb46) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/markb46\/status\/753113512994566144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny sportsman or woman caught match-fixing, spot-fixing or taking drugs should be banned for life. They have broken the rules, should pay the price and not be given a second chance,&#8221; KP wrote in his column.\u201cIf you cheat the system, either by taking drugs or money to underperform, then you are mugging the spectators, your team-mates and a sport that has been around a lot longer than you,\u201d Added Pietersen.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The talk around Mohammad Amir\u2019s Test comeback at the Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground has been whether tainted cricketers should be given a second chance or is it too serious a crime to be given a second life. A lot of current and former cricketers including England\u2019s Kevin Pietersen have expressed their opinions. KP in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":10314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,70,8,170,140],"tags":[1273,1049,194,109,1426,158],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-facts-in-cricket","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-amir","tag-boucher","tag-england","tag-pakistan","tag-pietersen","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}