Former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor
Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has reacted to the former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor’s explosive confession on Twitter On Monday about being approached by bookies in India, his involvement with cocaine and then blackmailing him by bookies. Gambhir in his column for Times of India The newspaper wrote about the need for more protections for whistleblowers reporting against “corrupt approaches”.
“Brendan Taylor and his acknowledgment of delay in reporting a corrupt approach has caught my conscience and attention. Whenever it comes to wrongdoing I take an absolute zero tolerance approach,” Gambhir wrote.
“I was reading Taylor’s statement with the same emotion – despair, disgust and anger. I read it once but I didn’t get angry. I read it again and it was the same. I read it a third time and the feelings were different. Don’t get me wrong because I’m not supporting Taylor. I’m only concerned about the circumstances that caused her and the father of four who feared for his family’s life to delay reporting the incident. For the International Cricket Council Anti-Corruption Unit. Taylor is a player and not a hardened criminal whose faculty would support him if six men barged into his hotel room with the threat of releasing a video, where he was allegedly banned. Was consuming substance,” Gambhir said.
Taylor had said in his statement on Monday that there was a delay in reporting the matter to the ICC, but he did not fix any matches. Taylor retired from international cricket last year and was the second highest run-scorer for Zimbabwe in ODIs with 6684 runs.
Gambhir further wrote that those who report corrupt practices should be given more protection and requested the authorities to take a lenient view on Taylor if he is not involved in any wrongdoing.
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“Certainly these corrupt people are not working in solitude. Often they do not seem to be part of an organized group. What if someone tried to physically harm Taylor or his family? Are cricketers protected? Who report corrupt approach but fear for their or their family’s well being? Is there any network that activates their security at the local level,” questioned Gambhir.
Gambhir said, “Taylor admitted that he did not succumb to the pressure of the corrupt and has never done anything wrong. If this is true, then maybe the authorities can take a little leniency on him. If he is corrupt, then let the law take its course.” should do.” Gave opinion.
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