September 2, 2010 5:19 PM

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Pakistan drops tainted player for ODI and T20 series against England

Pakistan has dropped its tainted Cricket trio- Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir – from its series against England. The Twenty20 and one-day series are to start on Sunday. The three players are implicated in a spot-fixing scandal exposed in a British tabloid's sting operation last week. The tabloid alleged that the trio allegedly took money from a bookie to bowl no balls during the Lord's Test last week. The trio's axing comes after intense pressure from the ICC and the host England Cricket Board after they made it clear that players had to be dropped for the series to go on. Meanwhile, actress-model Veena Malik known to Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, has handed over proof of his alleged links with Indian bookies to an official of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit. Hasan Raza, who is a top official of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit for South Asia, met Malik at her residence in Lahore last evening after she alleged that Asif was involved in match-fixing and she had ample proof of this.

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