Cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif banned for at least 5 years after they were found guilty of corruption by an International Cricket Council (ICC) tribunal.
Former Captain Salman Butt, who led the Pakistan team in last year’s Test series against England, was banned for 10 years, with five of them suspended, for his part in the spot-fixing scandal.
Muhammad Asif, was ruled out for seven years; two of which are suspended, while 18-year-old fast bowler Muhammad Amir was banned for five.
The Lawyer Michael Beloff, headed the tribunal and said the suspended parts of the sentence were dependent on the players committing no further breach of the code and attending an anti-corruption program run by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
A three-man tribunal considered the case for 6 days last month following allegations in a British newspaper that the trio had arranged for deliberate no-balls to be delivered in the fourth Test at Lord’s last year.
All three cricketers can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for sport after the tribunal.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said the trio, along with 35-year-old sports agent Mazhar Majeed from Croydon, England, had been charged with conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments and with conspiracy to cheat.
The trio denied spot-fixing, the offence of pre-arranging individual events within a match which may not affect the result.
Chief executive International Cricket Council (ICC) Haroon Lorgat said that it has been proved after the anti-corruption tribunal verdict on spot fixing that there is no room for corruption in cricket. He had already said that corruption would not be tolerated at all in cricket.
He had said that he would be disappointed if the three Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Asif and Aamer involved in spot fixing are not punished.
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