Statements of Afridi and Waqar could prove vital in determining the fate of the suspended trio
As the corruption tribunal of ICC is going to hold a hearing on the spot-fixing case, statements of Pakistani skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 along with Waqar Younis and Colonel Khawaja Najam have been recorded to aid the hearing committee.
Disclosing about the statements submitted by the above mentioned team members, a well placed source in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board told the reporters: “The statements of these three Pakistani team members are part of the evidence
documents and file prepared by the ICC against Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir. The statements of the three players were recorded especially while the ICC ACU was preparing its file of evidence against the trio.”
The source from PCB also disclosed that the lawyers of the suspended trio were facing time constraints in preparing the case as the ICC ACU had sent them a long list of evidence against the players.
The ICC code of conduct commission tribunal is going to have its hearing on the issue of the three players from the 6th to the 11th of January in which the tribunal will decide whether it had enough evidences
to prove the charges against them or not. If the evidences established against the tainted trio are found to be strong, the three players can face life time or at least long term bans.
“The lawyers for the players are going through all the evidence sent to them by the ICC specially Aitzaz Ahsan who recently agreed to represent Salman Butt at the hearing” added the source at PCB.
He also went on saying that the lawyers defending the spot-fixing charges were following a strategy according to which they were concentrating to find technical lacunas in the code of ICC ACU as well as in the ongoing investigation
by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756 Yard into the charges. Moreover, as the source claimed, the lawyers were also pondering over objecting the method which had been adopted to suspend the players back in August.
Earlier, appeals of the suspended players had been turned down by the ICC one-man tribunal and which had culminated in Khalid Ranjha, one of the lawyers who had represented Butt, withdrawing his name from the case. Ranjha was of
the view that with Michael Beloff sitting on one-man appeals tribunal on the three member code of conduct commission tribunal, the hearing had become contradictory, and he felt there were little chances for the trio to get justice from him.
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