PCB revokes central contracts of Butt, Amir and Asif following ICC’s latest decision
The Pakistan Cricket Board has revoked the central contracts of its suspended trio, Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, who are under ICC’s probe for their purported involvement in spot-fixing
during the Lord’s Test against England in August earlier this year.
'We only give contracts to players who can play for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755. Until their cases are decided ... they can't get any benefits from the board in terms of contracts", said the legal advisor of PCB Mr. Taffazul Rizvi.
The trio was suspended by the ICC on 2nd September after a British tabloid named News of the World claimed that Amir and Asif were paid by an illegal bookmaker http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed to bowl some deliberate no balls during the fourth
Test against England played at the Lord’s.
Amir and Butt filed appeals against their suspension which were dismissed by Michael Beloff, the head of the ICC code of conduct commission, who retained their suspensions after a two-day hearing at ICC’s headquarter in Dubai, last
Sunday.
The decision of the ICC code of conduct commission prompted Pakistan Cricket Board to suspend the central contracts of these suspended Pakistani players. Mohammad Asif, who withdrew his appeal against suspension ahead of the hearings
on his counsel’s advice, also remains provisionally suspended.
Another board official Zakir Khan also revealed that the central contracts of the suspended players had to be revoked following the latest decision of ICC. "Their contracts were active until the appeal hearing, but once their initial
appeals were rejected, under the ICC code we can't keep them on contracts".
The Pakistan Cricket Board offers a monthly salary of Rs. 250,000 ($ 2916) to its top grade players, which the suspended trio is now ineligible for. All three players will now appear before an independent anti-corruption tribunal of
ICC for a full hearing where a final verdict of the innocence or guilt of the players will be given.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-c89347 Karim, legal counsel of Amir in the case, told the media
that under the ICC code of conduct, the governing body has to decide by the 2nd of December whether to remove or retain the provisional suspensions on the cricketers.
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