Now the old trouble has returned again with Pakistan players accepting bribes for betting purposes (the phrase "allegedly" doesn't really enter the equation.)
So this all comes as no surprise.
I can't understand nowadays why anyone should paint such a rose-tinted view of cricket being a gentlemen's game anymore, when corruption and commercialism in sport are so rife at every level. Pakistan is going through a torrid time at the moment: the country is devastated by the worst flooding since the 2004 tsunami, the Taliban is a menace to every level of its society, and many Pakistanis are fighting for their survival: you can understand a few of them thinking it was every man for himself, to try and make what they could out of it.
But lessons are going to have to be learned. Heads will roll. I wish they would throw out sports betting and instigate laws to prosecute undercover journalism from creating scandal rather than reporting it.
