Banned cricketer Salman Butt apologises for spot-fixing

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Salman Butt

Former Pakistan cricket Captain Salman Butt has publicly admitted to and apologised for spot-fixing, for the first time, two years after he was found guilty of the offence. Butt, along with fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, was banned from the sport by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2011 after being found guilty for spot fixing during the Lord's Test against England the previous year. The trio and their agent Mazhar Majeed were also jailed by an English court in 2011. The players were released last year. Butt was the captain in the Lord's test when Amir and Asif bowled predetermined no-balls, and later it was revealed that all three players had connections with, Mazhar Majeed.