Pak defends alleged players

Pak High Commissioner gave a twist to the spot-fixing allegation that the three accused players were innocent. Britain Wajid S Hassan said they are found to be absolutely innocent. He said Majeed would defraud these Indian bookies. Hassan's stated that, the ICC had charged these three players with corruption offences and suspended them from all forms of the game even though decision on the charges was pending. Pakistan had dropped them from the ODI series against England but strongly defended them and vowed full support.

Refusing to accept that they were dropped in for the spot-fixing scandal, Hassan said, on account of the mental torture they are not in the mind to play any further. He added that they have requested the PCB not to consider them for the rest of the matches until their names are cleared from these allegations. He also raised question on the media for brought up this story.