Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif barred from using national facilities
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has barred the suspended trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif from using the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Gaddafi Stadium Lahore for training purpose.
A PCB spokesman told the media reporters that the board has sent letters to the trio notifying them that they are not allowed to use the national facilities until the spot-fixing scandal gets resolved.
The Test skipper, Salman Butt, and the new-ball pair, Mohammad Asif, and, Mohammad Amir, were provisionally suspended from all forms of the cricket after they were charged with various wrongdoings under the Article 2 of ICC’s anti-corruption code of conduct
on 2nd September 2010.
The allegations followed an article published in a British tabloid ‘The News of the World’ that claimed that the alleged pacers were paid by a bookie named http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed to bowl deliberate no-balls. The investigations regarding the "spot-fixing" allegations
were carried out by International Cricket Council's anti-corruption and security unit (ASCU) and the pacers along with their then captain were suspended from all cricket.
The pacers have not so far used the facilities, though Salman Butt had done so. Last week Butt while talking to the reporters at the National Cricket Academy - situated next to the Gaddafi Stadium – revealed that he had started his
daily 2-hours practice once again.
Though no reaction from the International Cricket Council has so far been observed, the local reports claimed that the letters PCB had been sent to the players over the weekend after the ICC took notice of Butt’s comments that he was
using national facilities.
Last week, the ICC came hard on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board, asking it to put its house in order, particularly about executing domestic anti-corruption measures. The ICC has given the a deadline of 30 days to carry out an in-depth and extensive
review of its player integrity issues and report back to the regulatory body’s task force.
Butt and his regime came under pressure after the ICC issued them a warning, and besides introducing a domestic anti-corruption code, consistent with the ICC's code, the board has to implement an education program for the cricketers
and a process to detect and discourage crooked elements within the game.
The trio has already filed appeals against their provisional suspensions by the ICC and the hearings will take place on October 30 and 31 in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986.
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