Pakistan Cricket Hearing Probes Phone Calls

The ICC has obtained phone records from the police probe into three Pakistan players accused of spot-fixing in the Fourth Test against England.

The ICC hearing into the conduct of Pakistan's former Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir has been sitting for a fifth day in Doha.
Asif is the last of the three to give evidence in his defence today before closing arguments.
A three-man panel, chaired by Michael Beloff QC, will then retire to deliberate on verdicts likely to be made public tomorrow.
The backbone of the evidence against the trio is a 54-page document detailing the News Of The World's investigation.
The cricketers are accused of organising and carrying out three allegedly pre-ordained no-balls last August.
In the NOW document it is understood there are details of numerous phone calls and texts involving the players and investigative journalist Mazher Mahmood.
The ICC are hoping that further corroboration from telephone records obtained from the police investigation will make their case against the players watertight.
Amir, Asif and Butt deny the accusations.
The prosecution are also hoping to clear up a suggestion by the Pakistan high commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan that the News of the World recorded Majeed's "predictions" of no-balls on the first day of the Lord's Test, after it was all over.
It is expected independently sourced telephone records will confirm the paper's story.
Scotland Yard has told Sky News that files detailing its investigation, separate from the ICC's, are "currently with the Crown Prosecution Service for a decision".


Published By: Sky News - World - Today
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