Salman Butt has filed a "comprehensive and hard-hitting" response to the spot-fixing allegations: Lawyer
Salman Butt, one of the three provisionally suspended Pakistan players, has filed a "comprehensive and hard-hitting" response to the spot-fixing allegations ahead of an ICC tribunal, said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Saeed-c89451, the lawyer of the former Test captain
of Pakistan.
"Butt on December 13 has filed a detailed, comprehensive and hard-hitting 40-page response to each and every allegation brought by the ICC with regard to spot-fixing levelled against him," said Saeed in a statement.
Saeed, who has recently replaced Khalid Ranjha as Butt’s lawyer, said that no details of the response would be disclosed because of the agreement of confidentiality, which - according to the player’s lawyer – was breached by the ICC CEO,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719.
"The ICC itself is violating the agreement, as evident from the recent comments of Lorgat." The comments Saeed was talking about referred to Lorgat’s remarks that he would be disappointed if the trio accused of spot-fixing were not proven
guilty.
The 26-year-old opening batsman of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, along with new-ball pair of Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, was provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council following claims of spot-fixing leveled against them by a British
tabloid named ‘News of the World’. According to the tabloid, the trio was paid by a Pakistan based illegal bookmaker http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed to deliver some deliberate no balls during the fourth and the last Test against England at Lord's in the last week of
August earlier this year.
Investigations were carried out by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard and the Anti-corruption and Security Unit of ICC and the trio was suspended from all forms of cricket awaiting a final decision. The players were given the right of challenging the suspension
and Butt and Amir did file appeals which were overturned by the head of the ICC’s Code of Conduct Commission, Michael Beloff, after a two-day hearing at the ICC headquarters Dubai. Asif had also filed an appeal but withdrew just a week before the hearing.
The trio is now due to appear before an ICC tribunal in a make-or-break hearing in Doha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986 from January 6 to 11 next year. The players, if proven guilty, will face severe punishments ranging from heavy fines to life-time bans.
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