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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Kolkata, October 27<\/strong> - Expressing regret at ex-New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns facing trial over match fixing allegations, former India stumper Farokh Engineer on Monday called for life ban for match and spot fixers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Match fixers should be banned for life. Chris Cairns is a sad case, what a fantastic cricketer he was, but people now will remember him only for the match fixing allegations and not his cricket,&quot; Engineer said during a media interaction here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Cairns is alleged to have attempted to manipulate games while playing for the now defunct Indian Cricket League.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Engineer, who played 46 test matches for India, termed spot fixing as the worst malady.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Spot fixing is the worst of all. Just to bowl a no-ball you get thousands and thousands of pounds. People may think what harm a single no-ball can do, what they don&#39;t realise is by doing one such thing, they get sucked into the whole match fixing affair. You just can&#39;t get out of that vicious circle,&quot; said the 77-year-old referring to the Pakistan trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir who were found guilty of spot fixing.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The trio was banned for accepting illegal money to orchestrate deliberate no-balls in the Lord&#39;s Test against England in 2010. However, the International Cricket Council allowed Amir to feature in domestic home matches earlier in the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I am glad that Amir has been given a retrieve and I am equally glad that the other two have been punished because they were instrumental dragging the youngster into the fixing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Any Indian cricketer, if found guilty of fixing, should be given a life ban. Match fixers or spot fixers, they have no place in cricket,&quot; said the former wicketkeeper-batsman.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Talking about the Indian team, Engineer also expressed dismay over the preference of foreigners as a coach for the team.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I can&#39;t fathom, why we continue to suffer from the complex that foreigners can do the job better than us. I can&#39;t understand why so much money was wasted on a person like Duncan Fletcher,&quot; said Engineer about the former Zimbabwe captain who coached the Indian team.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I think we should prefer an Indian for the job,&quot; he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>(IANS)<\/p>\r\n",
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