ICC suspends three http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricketers from playing cricket
The International Cricket Council has taken action against the three Pakistani players who were found to be in the middle of the match-fixing allegations by the British tabloid, News of the World. The ICC has decided to suspend the three players, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt, from playing international cricket until the ongoing investigations were completed by the ICC and the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard.
Earlier, the three players had decided to opt out of the rest of the tour of England, and in a statement read out by the high Commission of Pakistan to the UK, had blamed the mental agony caused by the incident for opting out. However, the high commission had also said that the PCB backed the players and believed in them being innocent.
The ICC, however, used the latest provisions of the Anti-Corruption Code to ban the three Pakistani players. The ICC sent out a press release which clarified that the three players had been charged with "various offences under Article 2 of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code for Players and Player Support Personnel relating to alleged irregular behaviour during, and in relation to, the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's last month”.
The ICC also said that the three cricketers were individually notified of what the charges were and for now, they will not be allowed to play any international cricket till the ongoing probe against them is completed. According to the ICC, the players can now contest the provisional suspension and then defend the charges in front of an independent Anti-Corruption tribunal.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719, the chief executive of the ICC said that the apex cricket body was conducting their own inquiry and hence had not suspended the players earlier. The ICC Anti-Corruption Code for Players and Player Support Personnel was modified in 2009, in order to add a clause like this where the players can be provisionally suspended. This clause was unanimously accepted by all the cricketing nations, including Pakistan.
It was also said that the three Pakistani cricketers, Asif, Amir and Butt, will be questioned by the Scotland Yard police on Friday.
Later, on Friday, the ICC’s Anti Corruption and Security Unit chief Ronnie Flanagan said that the body will go all out to ensure that the approaches by match-fixers are reduced to a large extent. Speaking of the incident on hand, he said that the investigation was complex in nature. However, he added that the reason behind the decision to suspend the trio was based on a process that had begun from the day these charges came out.
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