'Spot-fixing' cash was 'allowance' money - Salman Butt
Suspended former Test captain of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard in his hotel room during the England tour was the allowances that he got from Pakistan Cricket Board.
He said, “About 11,000 pounds of that money was from our daily allowances and being the captain I had an extra entertainment allowance which amounts to about 4,500 pounds from the tour, which I had with me.”
Butt came out with these clarifications as he was talking to an international sports channel. He said that there was absolutely no truth in the allegations that the money found in his room was given to him by the bookie http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448 Majeed.
The former skipper has revealed this after almost four months since he was accused of possession of illegal money. The matter of confusion is that why didn’t he disclose this information regarding the money before. It would have been better had he revealed
the situation earlier.
In England, it was reported that 15,000 pounds were discovered by the London Police when they searched Butt’s hotel room. About this revelation Butt said, “Well I think everybody knows the PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) pays us daily allowances on tours and
it was a long tour.”
Butt is facing suspension from all formats of cricket by the International Cricket Council along with fellow team-mates, pacer Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif for allegedly being involved in spot-fixing. The three players were accused of having ties with
a bookie named Mazhar Majeed, who paid the trio to bowl deliberate no balls at Lords against England in a Test match.
The news of the existence of this type of corruption in cricket was revealed by a British tabloid “News Of The World” which ran a sting operation to unearth these startling revelations. Video footage was provided by this tabloid to the investigating authorities,
however, none of the three players ever appeared in the video, the only link between the video and the players was the fact that Majeed was talking about the players and claiming to have really close ties with the three Pakistanis.
The thing that got the trio in trouble was the fact that after Majeed’s claim, Amir and Asif actually bowled no balls in the match, which led the tabloid into believing that it's sting operation was a success and Majeed was right about his ties with the
players.
After this the whole matter became public, the players were suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) from taking part in activities related to the sport. The players are now going to face a hearing by the ICC in Doha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986 next month which will
decide their ultimate fate. If the players are found guilty they are most likely to face life bans from all formats of cricket.
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