Samuels: I was made a scapegoat by ICC
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 2:51 pm
May 6, 2010
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels feels he was made a “scapegoat” by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as he nears completion of the two-year ban for leaking team information to a bookie.
In three days, Samuels will complete his ban from international cricket, and he maintains he did nothing wrong.
“I am an honest person. My conscience would not allow me to come back if I knew within myself I had done something wrong,” Samuels was quoted as saying in Sydney Morning Herald.
“They (ICC) need to spend time on situations like this; it is delicate and very important because you are dealing with players’ careers.”
“When they looked at my case, they used me as a scapegoat, the ICC wanted to make an example out of me when I was never in a position for them to be able to use me as an example. The way they dealt with my case was very unfair,” he said.
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West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels feels he was made a “scapegoat” by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as he nears completion of the two-year ban for leaking team information to a bookie.
In three days, Samuels will complete his ban from international cricket, and he maintains he did nothing wrong.
“I am an honest person. My conscience would not allow me to come back if I knew within myself I had done something wrong,” Samuels was quoted as saying in Sydney Morning Herald.
“They (ICC) need to spend time on situations like this; it is delicate and very important because you are dealing with players’ careers.”
“When they looked at my case, they used me as a scapegoat, the ICC wanted to make an example out of me when I was never in a position for them to be able to use me as an example. The way they dealt with my case was very unfair,” he said.
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