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Pakistan trio await spot-fixing outcome

2011-01-10 504 Dailymotion

<p><br /> Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif could find out on Tuesday if they will face punishment for alleged spot-fixing.<br /> </p><p><br /> The three Pakistan players, who are accused of producing no balls to order in a Test against England at Lord's in August, have spent the last six days before a full hearing of an Independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal in Doha.<br /> </p><p><br /> The trio were all charged with various offences under Article 2 of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Code.<br /> </p><p><br /> They all deny any wrongdoing, but have been provisionally suspended since the allegations came to light in the days following the Test.<br /> </p><p><br /> Butt, Amir and Asif have appeared before a three-man committee made up of chairman Michael Beloff QC, South African Justice Albie Sachs and Sharad Rao, a Kenyan member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<br /> </p><p><br /> A verdict would bring to a close a scandal that has rocked Pakistan and world cricket since the News of the World published a story claiming businessman Mazhar Majeed accepted £150,000 to arrange for Butt, Asif and Amir to deliberately bowl no balls.<br /> </p>

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