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tends to be a cultural problem - so maybe cultural solutions, rather than laws, are the best way to stop

as a washing machine ready for your next load, the press was quick to turn around the issues raised by last week's imprisonment of three of the best cricketers in the world to attempt of match-fixing.

readers interested in learning more about the fate of former captain of Pakistan, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and his teammates and Mohammad Amir, you can choose between you off too close to the light or Amir Brigade was treated too harshly caucus. They could read about how "cricket is the national passion in Pakistan" (which, as journalistic clichés about going to South Asia, you have taken "land of contrasts" left). Or, alternatively, how the sport can not shake the game, with its faint odor of fraud.

far, so par for the course. But here's a confession: the disappointment of my parents, my little interest in cricket, and on the rare occasions when I recall Norman Tebbit (let Dickie Mountbatten in India stick etc)

No, bloodless soul that I am, I am much more interested in public policy issues in sport. And for me the big question after last week is very simple: prison sentences actually help to reduce corruption in cricket? I do not believe, and why a story about clowns. Yes, the clowns. In Colombia. Bear with me.

Year's Day 1995, Antanas Mockus was elected mayor of Bogota, who broke into the elections with the promise to eradicate corruption. However, as even his supporters have been known, Mockus was a kamikaze politicians affectionately, to take office anywhere in the world.

was expelled from his previous job as president of the National University after dawdling in a conference room full of unruly students. The philosopher defended its actions by referring to the concept of Pierre Bourdieu symbolic violence, of course, but not washed with human resources.

However, this approach makes it admirably adapted for Mockus side to find new approaches to some of the most difficult problems in the capital, such as traffic violations.

Mockus saw that the problem was the culture, and therefore does not rely on the usual deterrent fines and imprisonment. No, the specialty of the philosopher-mayor was the change in attitude. In order to preserve water supplies in Bogota, for example, took a shower on television and turn off the tap while soaping up. Even wearing a spandex suit with a giant S on the front, SuperCitizen.

Now what does this have to do with the attachment point on the cricket? Well, one of the most salient features of corruption is based on culture as it is.