Karachi: Former star players and cricket administrators united on Wednesday to urge Pakistan to act immediately to save future generations of cricketers from corruption as three of its top players face jail in England.
Former Test captain Salman Butt and paceman Mohammad Asif were found guilty by a London court of conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments in a "spot-fixing" betting scam during the Lord's Test in August 2010. Continue reading below
Mohammad Amir, Pakistan's prodigious teenage strike bowler, pleaded guilty to the same charges at a pre-trial hearing in September.
The worst fixing scandal in more than 10 years was uncovered by Britain's now-defunct News of the World