Pages

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Banned Butt to be TV expert for World Cup

Pakistani cricketer Salman Buttt appears for a conference in Dubai in October, 2010. The former cricket captain, criminialized for 10 years this week by an anti-corruption tribunal, has sealed up to give consultant TV explanation during a World Cup.
©AFP/File – Aamir Qureshi

LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) – Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt, criminialized for 10 years this week by an anti-corruption tribunal, pronounced Wednesday he had sealed up to give consultant TV explanation during a World Cup.

Butt was criminialized by a International Cricket Council (ICC) along with gait bowlers Mohammad Asif as well as Mohammad Aamer following spot-fixing charges associated to a Lord’s Test opposite England final August.

The 26-year-old Butt will give consultant views for Pakistan’s Channel 5 hire during a a World Cup, being mutually hosted by India, Sri Lanka as well as Bangladesh from Feb nineteen to Apr 2.

“I have sealed a stipulate with a radio channel to do consultant commentary,” Butt told AFP.

“As we am not personification in a eventuality we suspicion it was value participating as an expert.”

A deputy of Channel 5 reliable to AFP that a broadcaster had sealed Butt.

Butt, who played 78 ODIs for Pakistan, scoring 2,725 runs during an normal of 36.82, pronounced he longed for to go upon to be concerned in a diversion notwithstanding a ban.

“My career is with cricket as well as we will fool around cricket, only for a World Cup we wish to spin as expert,” pronounced Butt, who hopes a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as well as a ICC do not intent upon his latest role.

The PCB has consummated a executive contracts of all 3 players as well as barred them from personification any inhabitant or bar turn match, though it stays to be seen either they or a ICC intent to Butt looming as consultant during a event.

Butt, Asif as well as Aamer have all hinted they might interest opposite a ICC sanctions, that followed allegations done in Britain’s News of a World tabloid.

They have twenty-one days — from Feb 5, when a bans were imposed — to interest to a Court of Arbitration for Sport, formed in Switzerland.

Prosecutors in Britain have charged a 3 players over crime as well as have summoned them in justice upon Mar 17.

No comments:

Post a Comment

st