The convictions of three Pakistan cricketers -- Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir in a spot-fixing case by a United Kingdom court had tainted the image of the country's cricket in 2011, an editorial in a Pakistan daily has said.

As 2011 drew to a close, an editorial in the Daily Times attempted to look at Pakistan's cricket in retrospect.

The editorial pointed out that Pakistan was unable to tackle the spot-fixing scandal on its own, which led the International Cricket Council to intervene in the issue.