Suspension appeal date set for Pakistan trio
The three Pakistan cricketers charged by the ICC under its Anti-Corruption Code are due to have their appeals against their provisional suspension from cricket heard at the end of October.
Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will have their appeals heard by the head of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, Michael Beloff QC, in Doha, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Qatar-c2986 on October 30th and 31st.
"After receiving three separate appeals from the respective players, the ICC moved as quickly as possible to convene an independent hearing in accordance with the ICC's Anti-Corruption Code,” ICC Chief Executive http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719 said.
"It is important to understand that the appeals are against the provisional suspension only and will not consider the substantive charges that were laid against the players on 2 September 2010. In the meantime, the players remain provisionally suspended from all cricket and related activities.”
The players were charged by the ICC with various offences under the Anti-Corruption Code at the beginning of September, and provisionally suspended from cricket at that time.
The suspensions compelled Butt, Asif and Amir to miss http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s Twenty20 Internationals and One-Day Internationals against England last month which the trio had already voluntary withdrawn from participating in following allegations of spot-fixing made against them in British tabloid the News of the World in late August.
The newspaper claimed that Butt, Asif and Amir had been involved in a betting scam involving the delivery of no-balls at pre-determined points of the Test between England and Pakistan at Lord’s in late August.
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