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TAUNTON, England, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan test captain
Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif
will meet their country's High Commissioner later on Thursday to
discuss corruption allegations levelled against the team.
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The meeting between the three
Pakistan players at the centre of spot-fixing allegations and
the country's High Commissioner has been postponed until
Thursday, officials said on Wednesday.
MUMBAI, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mohammad Asif may be dropped
from an Indian film in which he was supposed to play a cricket
coach after it emerged he was one of the three Pakistani
players embroiled in a spot-fixing scandal.
KARACHI, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The corruption scandal that
exploded this week is the latest damaging blow to Pakistan
cricket and former players fear it could be the one that
finally crushes the credibility of the sport in the South Asian
nation.
KARACHI, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The Lahore High Court has
summoned the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, the federal
sports minister and seven cricketers on Sept. 7 to hear a
petition calling for the players to face treason charges.
LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - British customs officials said on
Tuesday they had had arrested three people as part of an
investigation into money laundering.
KARACHI, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The three Pakistani cricketers
who have been named in a spot-fixing scandal will not practise
with their team in Taunton on Tuesday, manager Yawar Saaed said.
NEW DELHI, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Indian Premier League (IPL)
cricketers had been approached about spot-fixing over the last
two-and-a-half years, former India player Atul Wassan said on
Tuesday.
LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The International Cricket
Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit has been asked to submit a
report within the next three days on an investigation into
alleged corruption within the Pakistan team.
Aug 30 (Reuters) - Pakistan cricket has come under the
spotlight after a newspaper report alleging players had been
bribed to bowl pre-determined no-balls in the fourth test
against England.
KARACHI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Protesters in the eastern city
of Lahore slapped donkeys with shoes and pelted them with rotten
tomatoes on Monday to vent their anger at the latest Pakistani
cricket fixing scandal.
MELBOURNE, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Australia's cricketers remain
convinced their test victory over Pakistan in Sydney earlier
this year was achieved fairly after the contest has once again
become the subject of match-fixing allegations.
KARACHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Pakistan's former cricket
captain Imran Khan called for exemplary punishment to be given
to any player found guilty of spot fixing during the tour of
England.
LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Spot fixing has emerged as the
latest threat to the integrity of cricket after the match-fixing
scandal which rocked the game 10 years ago.
