Suspended Pakistan players respond to ICC charges
The three Pakistan players suspended and charged by the ICC under its anti-corruption code over match-fixing allegations responded to cricket's governing body on Tuesday within the required deadline.
Tafazzul Rizvi, Pakistan Cricket Board's legal adviser, said test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir replied to the charges through a lawyer two days before the deadline was set to expire.
Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were suspended on Sept. 2 over allegations of "spot-fixing" in a test against England last month that arose from an undercover sting by British newspaper the News of the World.
British police have allowed the trio to return home on the proviso they would return to Britain if needed.
The players will now go through an ICC hearing over the unspecified charges contained in the governing body's code of conduct.
They met with PCB chairman Ijaz Butt in Lahore on Tuesday. No details of the meeting were revealed.
There was a mixed response from the Pakistan public when the trio arrived home at Lahore airport last week. Dozens of people chanted slogans in support of Butt but others expressed their anger by waving shoes, a scathing insult to Muslims.
The players avoided facing the crowd and the media by leaving the airport through a back door.
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