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"Corrupt" Pakistan cricketers charged by ICC

Published 03 September 2010

The International Cricket Court charges the three cricketers at the centre of betting scandal.

The International Cricket Court (ICC) has charged three Pakistan cricketers accused of corruption with several offences.

Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will be questioned again by police, over allegations that they deliberately bowled no-balls against England in the fourth Test at Lord's last Thursday and Friday.

They have been provisionally suspended, and have 14 days to appeal.

The ICC, whose charges relate to "alleged irregular behaviour" in the fourth Test, has agreed not to speak to the players until the Metropolitan Police gives permission to do so.

More information about the charges is expected to be announced later today.

Allegedly, Asif and Amir bowled three no-balls at pre-determined times, after a middle man accepted £150,000 from an undercover reporter from the News of the World, who published the story on Sunday.

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2 comments from readers

Hysteria
04 September 2010 at 16:32

why is the word corrupt in quotation marks? It implies that the writer does not believe the behaviour to be corrupt.

If your lawyers want to ensure some wriggle room, isn't the accepted convention toi use the word "alledged" - which you use later in the article.

Do you think the alledged behaviour to be corrupt, or not?

Hriday
04 September 2010 at 21:33

This is the last chance for the ICC to clean up cricket or else International cricket with die a slow & painful death. Pak cricketers are the worst offenders when it comes to fixing cricket matches.Many of them come from poor ,rural background with little education & not too bright either. They are easily tempted to throw a match by crooked Pak fixers.If the 3 Pak criketers are found guilty of being involved in match fixing, then they should be banned for life.