The scourge that threatens the 'birthright of British boys'

FT

Cricket, said the writer J. M. Barrie, is a gift of the gods. Had Mr Barrie been at London's Southwark Crown Court these last few weeks, listening to the evidence that led to the jailing of three Pakistani cricketers for deliberately bowling no balls, he would have had to accept that the game is now controlled by the devil. So damming were some of the real life tales of cricketers lured by money that the creator of the magical Peter Pan books might have found them difficult to believe....Read more.