Tribune’s Gamechangers 2011: Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir

For bringing shame to Pakistan and the cricketing world.

Talented, young, greedy, stupid and in jail – the tainted trio have indeed brought Pakistan a lot of attention it could have done without. They were the golden boys of our team; Mohammad Amir had been nominated for an ICC award, whereas Asif was ranked the second leading Test bowler in 2010.

Pakistan has been known as a pioneer in the cricketing world. Our team invented the doosra, the reverse swing, and also brought the cricketing world neutral umpires. So adamant were these youngsters to continue this trend, they decided to be the very first cricketers to ever get jail time for spot-fixing. Talented and stupid indeed.

Fun fact: Salman Butt’s son was born minutes before he was found guilty in court.