While many purists of the game are not happy with the fact that the money of franchise cricket is taking precedence over international cricket and the cricketers are now starting to prefer T20 leagues more and more, the former Pakistan opener Aamer Sohail doesn’t have any issues with big bucks coming into the game.
According to Aamer Sohail, who played most of his cricket in the 90s, the money that the cricketers are getting now is legitimate money and since there is so much of legitimate money in the game these days, the modern day cricketers can’t be lured into corruption easily.
Aamer Sohail has seen corruption in cricket from close quarters because the era he played in, a lot of match fixing cases surfaced and some of those cases were from the Pakistan cricket team as well.
The number of match fixing cases in modern day cricket, as compared to what the number was in the past, has reduced quite significantly. “If things are under control and cricketers are getting legitimate money, that’s very good,” Sohail was quoted as saying by AFP news.
Modern day cricket provides money, but also demands high level fitness: Aamer Sohail
While Sohail likes the fact that modern day cricket is monetarily rewarding for the players and secures their future financially from a long term perspective, he insists that modern day cricket also requires a very high level of fitness, because the schedules are hectic and there is a lot of traveling involved, alongside playing cricket.
Aamer Sohail is of the view if anyone wants to excel in modern-day cricket, he should be ready to fulfil the fitness demands of it as well, because if a cricketer’s fitness is not as good as his contemporaries and he has to spend a lot of time on the sidelines because of fitness issues, he can be left behind.
