The Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK has said that if the three players at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy are found guilty, they should be banned from cricket.
Wajid Shamsul Hasan, made the comments in an interview during the BBC Radio 5 show Sportsweek.
“If the News of the World evidence is correct, then I would banish them from cricket,†Hasan said. Hasan insists however that the players are “innocent until proven guilty”.
“That was my stance from day one and I still maintain it. We questioned them and all my colleagues that talked to them said that, yes, apparently they are innocent. But we’re not police investigators – it’s up to the police to find out if they’re guilty.”
The three players at the centre of the scandal, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, are currently being questioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC), and face 23 charges.
