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PCB's failure to take action 'forced' ICC to suspend players: Former selectors | The failure of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to take action against the three players accused of 'spot-fixing' forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to intervene by suspending them, former selectors have said. The ICC provisionally suspended captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir from international
matches, despite the fact that they claimed to be innocent. "The ICC has suspended
the Pakistan players because the Pakistan Cricket Board showed reluctance in acting
itself," The Daily Times quoted Iqbal Qasim, former chief selector, as saying.
"In fact the statements from Pakistani officials that no players would be suspended
forced the ICC to take action," "That players were free to play was not acceptable
to the England board and to the ICC, because had these players played in more
matches, there would have been reaction from England players and fans," he added.
Another former chief selector, Salahuddin Ahmed, said that the board should have
stepped in before the governing body took action. "The PCB should have suspended
the players after Sunday's report in the newspaper, because these players would
never have been in the right frame of mind after all those allegations," Ahmed
said. "We haven't seen anything from PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, and manager Yawar
Saeed is unable to answer any question asked to him by the media, so all this
ineptitude is coming from the PCB and its officials." He added. Earlier, the ICC
had said that the three players were provisionally suspended pending a decision
on the charges. "In accordance with the provisions of the code, this means they
are immediately barred from participating in all cricket and related activities
until the case has been concluded," the ICC had said in a statement. The Pakistan
team is in the midst of a betting scam, where fast bowlers Amir and Asif are alleged
to have bowled pre-arranged no-balls in the Lord's Test, which England won by
an innings and 225 runs. British tabloid The News of the World has claimed that
the cricketers were part of a 150,000-pound betting scam with Butt and London-based agent Mazhar Majeed. |
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