John Roughan: Let crowd see the dodgy odds
Sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant. Cricket, a beautiful game in sunlight, should bring the corruption in its back alleys on to the field. Put it right up there on the scoreboard.
This, I realise, is about the last thing a once-respectable game would want to do. But it has reached a point when this game has nothing to lose. The International Cricket Council is getting nowhere with discreet investigations of match fixing.
Inviting players to speak confidentially to its anti-corruption unit about any approaches made to them has not been effective. It is going to be even less successful after Brendon McCullum's experience this week. The leak of his testimony is unlikely to entice any more to come forward.
After waiting so long for prosecutions by its governing body, cricket has passed the point of public credibility. Nobody likes to say this out loud but when talking about an unexpected result in cricket, the usual sporting accolades, "winning against the odds", "a turn up for the books", no longer sound metaphorical.
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