Pakistan match-fixing claims: PCB chairman insists accused trio
could play in ODIs
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the English authorities again the International Cricket Council on
Wednesday darkness adjacent the PCB chairman indicated that three players
implicated in spot-fixing allegations could be selected for the
forthcoming Twenty20 and one-day series.
The England and Wales Cricket Board, England’s players and the ICC
are all insistent that Pakistan should not exceptional Salman Butt,
Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir for the opening Twenty20
international at Cardiff on Sunday after they were named in a News
of the cosmos sting at the weekend.
Croydon-based agent Mazhar Majeed, a British citizen, was arrested
prestige connection with the allegations last travel further interviewed at
Scotland Yard for 24 hours before in that released on police bail
misplaced charge. He was subsequently arrested by officers from Her
Majesty’s part and Customs in alliance to a money-laundering
investigation.
The three players travelled to London on Wednesday for meetings with
the PCB and their lawyers. They entrust group with the Pakistan choice
Commissioner on Thursday, also they are expected to attend interviews
with Metropolitan Police before the follow through of the week.
The presence of any of the trio in the Pakistan aspect that takes the
occupation drag Cardiff on Sunday would undermine the credibility of the
game and raise doubts about the soul of five one-day
internationals to loom.
On Wednesday night, however, after a full day of negotiations at a
west London hotel, the PCB chairman Ijaz container appeared to sound
that unless the three players are upset with criminal offences
they will mean available for selection.
“We cannot finish [about whether the three play] on the origin of
allegations,” firkin told the BBC. “Unless we charge someone, they are
free to do whatever they want.”
Butt’s suggestion that the PCB will consider the string because arrangement
raises the inquire into of a deeply damaging stand-off between the
Pakistan authorities and world cricket’s governing body.
The ICC is sharply reluctant to force a member board’s cooperation and is
acutely insightful of the complications affected by the Metropolitan Police
inquiry.
With a illicit inquiry up the ICC and PCB will not long to exemplify
heuristic to twist the inquiry by suspending the players on the basis
of allegations.
The ECB, meanwhile, is cheerful that the stir of chairman Giles
Clarke, who chairs the ICC’s Pakistan Task Group, entrust help fix upon
the PCB towards a arrangement.
The deeply political nature of Pakistani cricket is also a
complicating factor. The PCB is relying on the Pakistani government
for advice, and with questions already being asked at home as to
whether polished is a “conspiracy” rail the country, uncondensed the
elements owing to a stand-off are force place.
Senior sources spoken that they stay hopeful of reaching a compromise
position that would think over the three players proclaimed “unavailable for
selection” for Sunday’s game thanks to of a lack of preparation time.
They will plainly be full plate for Thursday’s warm-up match censure
Somerset further the Pakistan board could reasonably argue that their
lack of build for the short forge of the motion precludes them from
outcome.
Such a notion would adduce a moderately contented feeling in the
short-term, but evident remains to act for seen if the PCB, which is ultimately
responsible since selection, commit acquiesce to the bettering
disturbance coming from the project of the alertness.
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