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Law enforcement, Cricketing board and ICC has bigger role to play and biggest loser. I have sympathy for cricketers like Taylor due to downfall but he wasn't some Saint. He took 15k and doing his usual cocaine stuff and then fell into blackmail fiasco with some Indian businessman aka fixture. Every international players even club cricketers are regularly briefed by their board and organization in regards of fixing, honeytrap etc.
So he took money from bookies and then busted himself and then only got three and half years of suspension. Usually it will be a life time ban if there is evidence of taking money as far as i understand. What is common here is that with every match fixing scandal there will be an Indian connection
. All the way from Hansie Cronje, Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje to Brendan Taylor.
The pay scale of Zimbabwe players are really low and hence it would be easier for the bookies to approach them and they fall for those traps which will ultimately end up exposing themselves in the global scale.
The sad thing is that Brendan Taylor is a great cricketer but his career is ending in such a way that no one wanted. And maybe it was said as a joke that with every fixing comes a connection to some Indian but it's actually a fact. @Swordsoffreedom yes Shakib Al Hasan issue is a real example, there was also an
Indian guy.
Anyway, I think that law enforcement plays a bigger role here. There needs to be a lot more severe punishment for the bookies. We always see that players get punished in these types of cases. I know a lot of players who have been punished just because they were approached by bookies and they didn't report that to the ICC, But they didn't do anything. On the other hand, I am sure that the bookies don't get into many troubles because they have lots of gods connections.
