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Former test skipper Salman Butt, fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, the three Pakistan players at the centre of spot-fixing allegations, called on Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt and lodged formal appeals against their suspensions by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in the spot-fixing scandal.The ICC charged three of Pakistan's stars with anti-corruption offences and provisionally suspended them on September 3, 2010.PCBs legal advisor Tafazzul Rizvi while talking to Dunya News informed that the ICC will convene a preliminary hearing into the allegations of spot-fixing surrounding three Pakistan players in 40 days' time. ICC can impose a ban lasting six months to life time as punishment to the players.It is pertinent to mention here that Australian tabloid The Daily Telegraph claimed that the Aamir is considering co-operating with police and ICC investigations into the spot fixing and match-fixing that have rocked world cricket.Amir will help authorities on the Pakistani teammates and dodgy betting identities that corrupted him to spot fixing.
