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The tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will be returning to Pakistan in the next couple of days. This was announced by the interior minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik.

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Pakistan’s leg-spinner, Danish Kaneria was released by the Essex police after he had been earlier arrested for allegations of spot-fixing. The incident had allegedly happened in an English domestic Pro40 match last season and he was called for enquiries in May. Apart from Kaneria, Mervyn Westfield was also involved in the issue.

A police statement read, “Essex police can confirm that a 29-year-old man from Chelmsford has been released from bail in connection with an investigation into cricket-match irregularities.”

The issue was the no-balls bowled in a game between Essex and Durham in September in 2009, which seemed to have caught the police’s eyes. Kaneria had been a part of the Pakistani side for a couple of Tests in UK, before being dropped from the side.

This comes at a time when Pakistan’s Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir are already under the scanner for charges related to spot-fixing.

Pakistan Cricket Board’s chairman, Ijaz Butt, has spoken to the media for the first time since the Pakistani high commission had proclaimed that Butt was on another assignment. Butt said that the ICC was looking into the matter, and till such time, the PCB could not launch its own probe.

Pakistan v England, 1st ODI at Chester-le-Street, Live Scoreboard

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Justin Kemp will replace Thilan Thushara in the Chennai Super Kings squad of 15 for the Champions League T20, 2010. The Champions League T20, which starts from September 10 this year, will see Chennai battle it out with nine other teams for the title of the best club side in the cricketing world.

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English cricketers, Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas have been fined by the English cricket board for their Twitter rant that saw them use foul language against the selector, Geoff Miller.

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The ICC has called upon the Pakistani wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal, for his alleged role in match-fixing. The ICC has said that they need to determine whether there was any role that Akmal played in the match-fixing controversy.

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The schedule of IPL 2011 may not have been announced but the IPL Governing Council has come out with the news that the fourth edition of the IPL will have 74 matches and IPL 4 will start from April 7, 2011.

According to the IPL Governing Council, the IPL 4 schedule will be announced at a later date, but for now, the ten teams will be divided into two groups of five each. Apart from the IPL 2011 schedule, the player retention and IPL auctions were also announced

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The News of the World has come out with more revelations on the match-fixing scandal that the Pakistani players, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt have been allegedly involved in. You can watch the Yasir Hameed video talking about the offer made by the bookies on YouTube. The News of the World has said that they are probing a fourth player apart from the fact that Yasir Hameed has said that he was offered a sum of £100,000 to fix a match.

Watch England-Pakistan T20 live below:

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The International Cricket Council has finally moved to suspend the trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif from international cricket under the Anti-Corruption Code. The three have allegedly been accused of being involved in match-fixing by a British tabloid and with a video as evidence, the ICC has had no option but to suspend them.

You can find the allegedly fixed Lord’s Test match between English and Pakistan here.

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The three Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, have been dropped from the Pakistani side for the rest of the tour of England. However, according to the team manager, Yawar Saeed, the troika of Butt, Asif and Amir were not suspended from the side.

Somerset will play Pakistan in a warm-up game at Taunton and you can follow the Somerset-Pakistan game on Cricinfo.

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