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http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/536803.html
Re: Spot-fixing trial begins in London/ Three further Pakistani players named.
I hate the stupid tactics lawyers employ these days while defending people they know are guilty. The profession of law has no ethical standards.
" haww look at this poor guy he needs money to fund his sisters wedding dont fine him ok?"
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Salman Butt is in (or should be in) catch 22. He is now reveling his millions of $ of earnings I am sure he has not declared on his Tax statements :)
Even if he gets away lightly here, he should be punished using Tax laws :D
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Salman Butt is in (or should be in) catch 22. He is now reveling his millions of $ of earnings I am sure he has not declared on his Tax statements :)
Even if he gets away lightly here, he should be punished using Tax laws :D
Good catch:)
But the problem is that one of the main tax guys in Lahore would be
- a friend of the butt family
- had a son who went to school with butt and thus developed some relationship with salmon
- a fan of cricket
If any of those scenaris are correct then there is no way in hell for salman to pay taxes.
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Butt’s Lawyers are now framing in Muhammad Aamir
http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/536838.html
Re: Spot-fixing trial begins in London/ Three further Pakistani players named.
This bajwa guy must be as thick as his client. Has he forgotten that Butt came up to Amir and spoke to him before he bowled that famous no ball and more damningly when Amir did bowl that no ball Butt instead of keeping his eyes fixed on the batsmen as is normal, was actually watching Amir.
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This bajwa guy must be as thick as his client. Has he forgotten that Butt came up to Amir and spoke to him before he bowled that famous no ball and more damningly when Amir did bowl that no ball Butt instead of keeping his eyes fixed on the batsmen as is normal, was actually watching Amir.
I dont think Bajwa and his client are thick. They are being very shrewd and playing this case cleverly!
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Some interesting comments here.. hmmmm
Butt confronted Majeed at World Twenty20
Butt’s comments came on the afternoon of the ninth day of the alleged spot-fixing trial at Southwark Crown Court. It was the first time he had taken the witness box after the prosecution closed its case.
Former opening batsman Butt was questioned about text messages he had received from Majeed, who was his agent from 2006 until 2010, relating to fixing. Butt first gave the background to the messages, which came on the back of a losing tour of Australia when they lost every single match in 2009-10.
“He would say before a game ‘give me something’,” Butt told the court. “I didn’t like it and I felt bad about it. We are not what you are thinking of us. We don’t lose intentionally. But it didn’t make any difference to him.”
For the match against South Africa, Majeed texted Butt asking, “in seventh and eighth over, one fall (wicket) in each, this will only work if you score in the first two overs and no wickets”. Kamran Akmal opened the batting with Butt. The message was recovered from police on behalf of the prosecution.
Butt added, on when Majeed would raise such topics: “I would get rid of the conversations in my own language and say ‘thik he’.” At this stage Butt utilised the services of the female interpreter standing by his side for the first time. She explained that what he was saying meant ‘Okay, let’s move on’.
Despite Butt’s intentions to deter Majeed’s messages, they didn’t stop. His lawyer, Ali Bajwa QC, asked him to explain messages found on Majeed’s phone that were sent to him. One such message read: “Give us one in the seventh and one in the eighth.” Bajwa asked Butt if he remembered receiving the messages at that time. He said “Well it is my phone so I must have read them”. But when Bajwa asked him if he knew what the message meant, he responded “No”.
In the event, on that May 10 game, Butt was dismissed second ball trying to pull Dale Steyn. Bajwa asked Butt if he was captain at that time so to determine to the jury whether he had any influence on events in the match and Butt said, “No”.
The court had already heard from written evidence given by the Pakistan team’s then security manager, Major Khwaja Najam Javed, that Majeed was in the Caribbean at the time for the tournament with his family.
Butt then explained that he confronted Majeed on the day of this match and he told him: "We are not like these messages you are sending me. You must understand that I must report these things if they come up. He said I am your friend and I have known you many years and I am just checking if you are doing something dodgy or not.
"I took his word for this explanation. He said he was trying to test me with something non-serious. I took his word for that. In four years there was nothing like this - something very serious. Anyone in my place would have had suspicions about it. I did not expect this thing to come up. I had known him many years and he had never done this thing before.
“I didn’t report it to the ICC because this is someone I had known for quite a length of time now and he meant what he said to me in his explanation. I had worked with him a couple of years. This is someone I know, if it (happened) the way he explained it to me there was no way the ICC should find out. The only way of working with him was to have good relations so I took his word.”
Just before proceedings broke off for the day, Bajwa quizzed Butt on the maiden over that, the prosecution alleged, Butt had agreed to but, subsequently, did not play out at The Oval in the third Test, the match before Lord’s. Majeed said: “You know the maiden yeah, do one more.” Butt, after said saying ‘yeah’ to the initial mention of a maiden, eventually snapped and said, “Bro just leave it”. That was known from the prosecution’s opening.
Butt, who told the court “it is not hard to play out a maiden in a Test match at The Oval” after the prosecution suggested he failed to achieve it, said of the latest corrupt question from Majeed: “I just wanted him to leave this conversation. He started the same thing over and over again. The way he was showing off, like he thought I would do him a favour. I was slightly suspicious.”
The case continues.
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Butt teri to mein 
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Asif first says nobody can pressure him, and now is saying he was being pressured in that over where he bowled the no-ball.
Butt and his defense are playing it smartly though. Poor Amir is the only one who looks clearly in big trouble because of his big no-ball.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the reason Pakistan didn't field wahab has something to do with this trial, today salman was directly asked on what was AM doing in wahab'a room after midnight during the oval test. Which to me hints that he is ( even though he is not being trialed) is not considered 100% innocent and this might put him in a frame of mind which Pak mangmt didn't wan a risk putting him in final eleven, at least for the first game.
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Wahab Riaz hasn't been in the team long enough to have had a chance to do much wrong. But Wahab is an old friend of Butt's so maybe Butt had an eye towards "grooming" him for the future.
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Im sure Wahab is not this all ........Now Butt is trying to be innocent
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If i ever saw Salman Butt, i can assure everyone here that his BUTT would be kicked thoroughly...
He is playing all innocent and is blaming Aamir and Asif for everything... want to punch him right now..
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whoa! Geoff Lawson has made strong statements in Butt’s defence! 
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Mohammad Asif attributed his infamous no-ball in last year’s Lord’s Test to the abuse he received in the over from his captain Salman Butt, a court heard in London on Thursday.
When discussing the tenth over at Lord’s in which Asif’s one questionable no-ball was delivered, on the sixth ball of the over, Milne asked his client if anything was said to him during this over. He responded by revealing how captain Butt had abused him. After the first ball of the tenth over Butt had moved into an unusual fielding position at a straight, short mid-off, which is where, it is alleged, that Butt made the remarks from.
“He said run faster f*****, and went on to say something like ‘haven’t you slept’? Somebody kept shouting. I think Butt was saying things; that made me lose concentration.”
http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/537298.html
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Speaking of character witnesses of Butt, who will be Asif’s character witness? 
jo bhi ho ga pehley tu uss witness k character per shak keya jayee ga 
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yeah lets go with Veena Malik! koi shuk ki zaroorat hi nahi.
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Shoaib Akhtar 
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^ L O L!
" main ainwayn te balla nai maarya c ": SA