20 Sep 2010

Pakistan cricket boss rejects corruption claims

12:24 pm on 20 September 2010

The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt rejected allegations of corruption in the third one-day international against England and says he feels there's a conspiracy against the national team.

The International Cricket Council is investigating Saturday's match at the Oval after receiving information from a British newspaper alleging a suspicious scoring pattern in Pakistan's innings.

Pakistan won the match by 23 runs.

Butt says Pakistan have co-operated with the ICC investigation and claims teams don't win games if they're match fixing.

He says after the third ODI the team feels it's not a conspiracy to defraud bookies but to defraud Pakistan cricket.

The ICC investigation follows its decision to suspend test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif after a newspaper report that they arranged for no-balls to be deliberately delivered in the fourth test against England at Lord's.