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But the evidence is overwhelming: leadership matters. Look at the turnaround in Pakistan cricket. Two years ago I was at Lord's on the Saturday before the News of the World published their scoop about spot-fixing. Pakistan were not merely losing, they...
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To this day, they have not played an international match on home soil, with the team trialling various options before adopting the United Arab Emirates as its home away from home. Cricket in Pakistan was again left in turmoil late in 2011, when former...
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A combination of file pictures created on November 23, 2011, shows former Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt (L) and Mohammad Aamer outside Southwark Crown Court in London. Disgraced Pakistan players Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer lost their appeals... View Photo »
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I think the hard work we put into rebuilding the side and encouraging the new players is now paying dividends. Imagine we are without Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Amir, Wahab Riaz, Kamran Akmal or Danish Kaneria and yet the team is doing well. It just highlights the depth of talent we have in ou...
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We don't beg to play in the IPL, but at the same time, there shouldn't be such discrimination against a nation," Miandad said from Karachi. When reminded about Mohammad Asif's positive dope test during inaugural IPL in 2008 and recent spot-fixing...
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We don't beg to play in the IPL, but at the same time, there shouldn't be such discrimination against a nation," Miandad said from Karachi. When reminded about Mohammad Asif's positive dope test during inaugural IPL in 2008 and recent spot-fixing...
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Mervyn Westfield, the former Essex fast bowler, will today be sentenced having last month pleaded guilty to spot-fixing. Westfield, 23, admitted he was paid £6,000 to give away runs in a Pro40 game against Durham in September 2009. He faces a possible...
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Supporters of the guilty Pakistani cricket players burn an effigy of London's Southwark Crown Court judge Jeremy Cooke during a protest in Lahore November 4, 2011. Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt and bowler Mohammad Asif have been jailed for... View Photo »
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I think the hard work we put into rebuilding the side and encouraging the new players is now paying dividends. Imagine we are without Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer, Wahab Riaz, Kamran Akmal or Danish Kaneria and yet the team is doing well. It just highlights the depth of talent we have in o...
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Still nobody knows what happened to him. The stink around Pakistan cricket was suddenly even more rancid. Then there was spot fixing. Mohammed Asif was a fine bowler. Though undoubtedly mercurial, when in the right form he was the equal of any other...
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Bedevilled by the spot-fixing scandal of 2010, which ended in lengthy bans and ultimately jail terms for three of its key players ― Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer ― Pakistan registered their first-ever whitewash over England in Dubai on...
About Salman Butt
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Salman Butt (born October 7, 1984 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani cricketer who regularly opens the batting for his national side in both Test and ODI matches. He made his Test debut on September 3, 2003 in the 3rd test against Bangladesh, and a year later made his ODI debut against West Indies on September 22, 2004. Full Article
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