http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 to meet tainted players' lawyer in UK
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board chairman, Ijaz Butt and the PCB's legal advisor Taffazul Rizvi are headed to the UK on Tuesday to meet the lawyer of the three Pakistani cricketers allegedly involved in match-fixing.
In a separate, pre-planned incident, the International Cricket Council chief, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719 will also go to England, but the reason behind his visit is still unclear.
The trip, which was planned last week, will see Butt and Rizvi remain in England for around five days and will meet Elizabeth Robertson, the lawyer representing Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir
in the spot-fixing case. Earlier, there were rumours that Amir had said that he was coerced into the spot-fixing scandal by the Pakistan cricket captain, Butt, and that he had no say in the matter.
The Crown Prosecution Service, which received the initial evidence on the claims that the trio were involved in match-fixing, from the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard, may announce some kind of a decision around the case.
What has not been revealed is whether the PCB chief and the English cricket board chief will also meet after Butt was sent a formal notice by the English board asking him to apologise for his comments about
match-fixing. Butt had said that the English cricketers were involved in match-fixing at the end of the Oval ODI. He later said that he was being misquoted and that he had only quoted what the talk in the betting circles was.
However the English players had taken strong exception to the comments and threatened to boycott the fourth and the fifth ODI of the series. After negotiations with the English cricket board and the Professional
Cricketers’ Association, the team decided to play on but not before the board had promised to start legal proceedings against the PCB chief Butt. It was also said that the English board has asked Butt to pay up damages to the players and bear the expenses
of the legal proceedings.
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