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PCB mulls legal action against Trott

Ijaz Butt confers with legal team over possibility of filing legal action against Trott for calling Riaz ‘match fixer’

Reuters September 24, 2010

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering legal action against England batsman Jonathan Trott after his clash with bowler Wahab Riaz before the fourth one-day international at Lord's, a board source said on Friday.

PCB chairman Ijaz Butt had conferred with his legal team over the possibility of filing legal action against Trott for allegedly calling Riaz ‘a match fixer’ while the two teams were warming up in the nets, the source said.

The two players scuffled and had to appear before the match referee over the incident, with Trott apologising to Riaz.

‘There is a strong likelihood that the PCB, in a tit-for-tat response to the threat by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to sue Butt over his remarks against English players, will go after Trott,’ the source said.

On Thursday, the ECB demanded a ‘full and unreserved apology’ from Butt for his allegations that England players had engaged in match-fixing.

Butt told a Pakistan television channel, after England lost the third one-day international at the Oval last Friday, that there had been ‘loud and clear talk in bookies' circles that some English players were paid enormous amounts of money to lose the match’.

His comments came after the International Cricket Council (ICC) launched an inquiry into Pakistan's scoring pattern at the Oval after receiving information from a British newspaper.

The Pakistan team returned home from their tour earlier on Friday, to a quiet reception.

COMMENTS (3)

Ahad | 14 years ago | Reply Mr Ijaz Butt must either display some honor and call it a day, or else this senile old fat nut will destroy whatever little that is left of cricket. There are already rumours that his brother-in-law is active in gambling on cricket,while the wife of the same b-in-law is an employee of PCB. The whole family are keen gamblers, for whom the only thing that matters in life is making money. Cricket is agame for gentlemen, but with elephant like senile butts heading it, there is no role model or counselling for young cricketers coming from poor families. If Mr Butt was an honest man, he would not have tolerated all the dishonest people accompanying as officials with the team. Everybody in Pakistan and PCB is aware of the controversies that surround Shafqat Rana, Ijaz Ahmed, Waqar Younis and even Javed Miandad, related to the king of Bombay Cricket Gambling Mafia, Daud Ibraheem

The Only Normal Person Here. | 14 years ago | Reply Half of the boat is already drown and rest would be by Butt Sahib's unwilling to stop tongue.

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