Friday 26 November 2010

Butt, Akmal cleared of T20 WC fixing charges


Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal had been cleared by ICC of all the allegations regarding spot-fixing during the T20 World Cup in West Indies earlier this year.

The Anti-corruption unit of the ICC, after collecting all the evidences including phone records, has found the alleged players innocent, said Pakistani news channel.

Salman Butt told the local channels that they had officially cleared the duo from all the charges 3 weeks ago and we both had received the letters from ICC and also mentioned that the ICC was just formally investigating the phone records and other evidences.

Pakistan in the super eight stage was alleged to have been fixed against England's victory in the T20 World Cup England had outperformed Pakistan by winning the game by 6 wickets.

Salman Butt's suspension from all forms of cricket will continue as the spot-fixing scandal during the England Tests is still under the scanner.

Earlier, Salman Butt had also written a letter to the PCB telling them that he needed money to fight his case against the ICC to get cleared of the spot-fixing allegations. The PCB, however, has not come to a decision on that as yet.

Monday 15 November 2010

Channel Islands to host Twenty20 World Cup qualifier

According To A Report, Channel Islands to host twenty20 world cup qualifying round. ICC has improved qualifying structure and increase the competition.

Because of the decision to expand the World Cup in Sri Lanka to 16 teams this change has been taken place.

Championship will be held on both islands from 19-24 July 2011 for the inaugural Twenty20 ICC European Division

The other countries in Division One are Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Israel, Italy and Norway.

Richard Holdsworth, ICC Regional Development Manager, said: "The new structure gives more member countries a better opportunity to reach a global qualifier and then potentially an ICC global tournament.

"All host venues have been carefully selected and we are very happy with them.

"Guernsey and Jersey did an excellent job hosting the ICC European World Cricket League Divisions One and Two this year and will no doubt again as co-hosts for the inaugural ICC European Division One Championship (T20)."

Saturday 6 November 2010

Lara And Sidebottom Signed For T20

Former West Indies batsman Brian Lara and ex-England left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom have been signed Zimbabwean franchise Southern Rocks for the Stanbic Bank Twenty20 competition, which will start in Harare on November 13.

Both of the player are now retired from international cricket, so far the experts have been raising questions on Brain's Lara cricket as he had been out of the cricket since his retirement.

Lara, for many years regarded alongside Sachin Tendulkar as one of the best batsmen of his era.Lara had a stint with the unofficial Indian Cricket League in 2007-08,where he leads Mumbai Champs and has maintained ambitions of coming out of retirement to try his hand at Twenty20 - a format that hadn't taken off internationally when he retired.

Rocks chief executive Givemore Makoni told the Zimbabwe Independent."We have signed Sidebottom and we have also confirmed the Lara deal, so we are done with the acquisition of new personnel and we are just ready to get going,"