Disgraced Pakistani player Salman Butt explains hotel room cash
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s former Test cricket captain, Salman Butt has spoken for the first time about the cash and expensive belongings found in his hotel room in England earlier this year.
Butt, who is one of the three suspended Pakistani players by the International Cricket Council (ICC) over spot fixing allegations, had his hotel room searched by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard who were investigating a tabloids allegation that the
Pakistani players were paid to “deliberately bowl no-balls” in a Test match against England in August 2010.
The investigators confiscated the mobile phones and suspicious possessions of the accused captain as large sums of money were found in Butt’s room.
The former captain, who is suspended along with fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir, has repeatedly denied his involvement in any foul play, claiming that the cash was brought on the tour with the intention of shopping
for his sister’s wedding.
However, detectives found banknotes and cash amounting to £150,000 that was handed over to him by the tabloid’s undercover reporters as a payment for the deliberate no-balls.
Butt talked to an international broadcaster on Sunday as he explained that the money found in his hotel room was the allowances given to every player on the tour by the PCB.
But contradicting his earlier statement regarding the money being for his sister’s wedding shopping, Butt said that the PCB pays them "daily allowances on tours and it was a long tour so about £11,000 of that money" was from the
daily allowances and as he was the captain, he had "an extra entertainment allowance" which amounts to about £4,500 on the tour.
When asked about the contradiction, he denied ever saying this, saying “there was a lot being said at that time and a lot of it was baseless.”
Butt was recording the interview for a report on 2010 Pakistan cricket crisis special which will be broadcasted on Sky Sports News on Monday.
According to excerpts released by the channel he said, “I know inside what I am made of, where I have come from, and how I have played my cricket.”
Butt along with Asif and Aamir are suspended indefinitely by the ICC, with the ICC’s anti-corruption unit currently investigating the case. A tribunal hearing is expected to take place in Doha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986 by the ICC’s code of conduct
commission in January that will give the verdict on the allegations.
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