British police questioned the three Pakistani cricketers embroiled in fixing claims, as the sport's governing body insisted the case was not the tip of a corruption iceberg in the game
|
| Pakistan's Mohd Amir leaves a police station in London yesterday. PIC/AFP |
British police questioned the three Pakistani cricketers embroiled in fixing claims, as the sport's governing body insisted the case was not the tip of a corruption iceberg in the game.
Bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif and Test captain Salman Butt arrived separately for questioning by detectives at a police station near the home of cricket, Lord's in north London.
The International Cricket Council said meanwhile it had acted as soon as it could to charge the trio with "various offences" under its anti-corruption code and to suspend them pending a decision on those charges.
"The conclusion that we have come to is that there is a really arguable case to answer," Ronnie Flanagan, chairman of the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, told a press conference at the Lord's ground.
The charges all relate to the fourth and final Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's, which finished with an England win on Sunday, in which a tabloid newspaper said deliberate no-balls had been bowled.
