ECB asks Ijaz Butt to pay compensation
Spot fixing allegations have harmed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket greatly, with ICC provisionally suspending the Test captain Salman Butt and the pace bowling duo Mohammad Asif and Amir. This tour to England in the words of Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed and captain
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard has yet to establish the truth about these allegations but nonetheless, mere
accusations have harmed the team and PCB greatly.
Following the exceptional victory for Pakistan at Oval, a British Tabloid the Sun accused the Pakistan team of deliberate ‘slow playing’ and the pattern of scoring was known to the bookies. It is no surprise that the Pakistan team played with a slow run
rate mainly due to the relatively inexperienced side, and hence it took no rocket science to predict the scoring pattern which anyone could have predicted very easily.
Despite the lack of evidence, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719 decided to conduct a thorough investigation on the matter and broke the ICC rules by not informing PCB before hand that the crickets governing body had decided to conduct an investigation. The PCB found out about
the matter after the matter had been made public during a press conference by Mr Lorgat.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128, then in a telephonic interview with an Indian News Channel said that there has been loud and high talk in the bookie circles that some English players made ‘enormous’ amounts of money for throwing away the match. This highly erratic statement
made by the chairman of the cricket board of Pakistan infuriated quite a few amongst the English side. The ECB threatened Ijaz with legal action and recently sent a pre-action letter to the chairman asking him to issue an ‘unreserved’ public apology to the
English players.
It is now learnt, that in the letter the ECB has dictated the exact words that the apology should comprise. They have also demanded that the apology should be from both the chairman and the PCB. The ECB also demanded that the PCB pay the legal costs of the
case not to mention a substantial amount in damages to each member of the England cricket team.
Ijaz Butt had not expected such a strong reaction from the England Cricket Board, especially after he had clarified that he did not accuse the England players of throwing away the match but rather stated what the bookies had been saying. The PCB has now
decided to respond to the legal notice through one of its England based lawyers, Addleshaw http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Goddard-c60233.
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