marex wrote:Who saw that feature?...It realy touched me..thats guy has hit rock bottom!
Odumbe was found guilty by the ICC and banned for five years! His own wife implicated him in the whole saga. Match fixing, especially in high profile international events is a serious offence. Cricket is a leading sport in the world and in this era of professionalism, people like Odumbe have a duty to show good example to younger players and youth. This is why they are paid crazy salaries.
Rather than cry of spilt milk, Odumbe should work hard and recapture the form that made him a world class player. He can still earn a living in the Kenyan league if indeed he has the psyche to play the game.
If you look at this
wiki page on banned cricketers, Odumbe is not the only player banned or suspended by the ICC. For others like Hansie Cronje of South Africa he never recovered from his life ban and it ended quite tragically. Cricket, like Rugby, is a much bigger sport in South Africa than in Kenya.
Match fixing should be made a criminal offence rather than just suspend th guilty players, the culprits should be held criminally liable, after all it is FRAUD and in Odumbe's case, it cost some people a lot of money. I have no sympathy for people who defraud others.
Odumbe's experience should be a lesson to Kenyan professional sportsmen and women (... like McDonald Mariga, Samuel Wanjiru, Denis Oliech, Pamela Jelimo and Conjestina Achieng) who should improve their education, make smart investment choices and ultimately increase they chances in life should an injury, a ban or even loss of form result in the end of career as professional sportsmen as is already happening to some of these mentioned.
Odumbe unfortunately only made a choice of chasing white women......yaani Kenyan girls were not in his class, until the ban brought him down.. right down to earth!!!