Topic: Salman Butt
Disgraced Pakistan players Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer lost their appeals Wednesday against their jail sentences for spot-fixing, with England's top judge saying they had "betrayed" their country.Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge said their "notorious" case was a "carefully prepared" corruption conspiracy ...
Britain's top judge will next Wednesday hear appeals by Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer against their sentences for spot-fixing, a judicial official said.Former Pakistan captain Butt, 27, was on November 3 sentenced to two and a half years in prison ...
Former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt told a court in London on Monday that he had ignored requests by his agent to fix cricket matches against England.At his trial with fast bowler Mohammad Asif, Butt, 27, said he did not fulfil his ...
Australian Test and one-day captain Michael Clarke said Friday he was "100 percent confident" that no Australian cricketers were involved in match-fixing.His comments followed allegations made in a London court this week implicating Australian players during the corruption trial of ex-Pakistan cricket ...
The former investigations editor at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid denied Wednesday that his story allegedly exposing spot-fixing in Pakistan cricket was the result of phone hacking.Giving evidence at the trial in a London court of former Pakistan Test captain ...
Pakistan cricketers were ready to throw one-day internationals and Twenty20s in a bid to undermine then-captain Shahid Afridi and make "a hell of a lot of money" doing so, a London court heard on Tuesday.Mazhar Majeed, an agent for several Pakistan players, ...
Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland on Tuesday said allegations made in a London court implicating Australian players in match-fixing were baseless claims made by a person of "dubious repute".The details emerged as Mazher Mahmood, the former investigations editor for Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct ...
A sports agent told an undercover reporter he could fix the results of cricket games using a stable of six Pakistani players, with a Test match costing £1 million to rig, a London court heard Monday.The claim emerged as Mazher Mahmood, the ...
Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt agreed to score no runs in an over during a Test against England last year as part of a betting scam, a court in London heard on Thursday.Prosecutors said Butt confirmed in a telephone call with ...
Pakistan players took bribes to bowl deliberate no-balls during a match against England in a case that exposes "rampant corruption" at the heart of international cricket, a court heard Wednesday.Former captain Salman Butt, 26, and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, 28, deny charges ...
