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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials on Saturday handed over charge-sheets to Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif for their alleged involvement in spot-fixing at the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL), PCB Director Media Amjad Hussain told DawnNews.
The charge-sheets were handed over to both the players after recording their statements separately and now they have to submit their replies within 14 days, he maintained.
PCB had sent Khan and Latif back home following their alleged involvement in spot fixing during the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL).
If both payers confess to all the charges levelled against them then the PCB will form a disciplinary committee to decide about the punishment, board officials said.
But if the players deny these charges then a trial court would be set up by the PCB’s Anti-Corruption unit under chair of a former Judge and with representation of one former player to investigate the matter, PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan had said.
Both the cricketers had recorded their audio statements at the PCB headquarters on Wednesday.
Shaharyar had said Sharjeel and Khalid will be given one to two weeks to submit their replies against the charge-sheets, after which the board will level formal charges.
PSL authorities in their initial statements on the scandal had claimed that while the investigation against three other cricketers — Mohammad Irfan, Zulfiqar Babar and Shahzaib Hasan — was ongoing, Sharjeel and Khalid were sidelined from the PSL after they had confessed to wrongdoing.
Both were suspended provisionally by the PCB’s anti-corruption unit, and immediately sent back home.
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Feb 18, 2017 06:42pm
Let us not have a media trial...give both of them a fair chance, if found guilty make them an example for the future players..
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Feb 18, 2017 06:41pm
PCB should tell the fans what the charges are. We pay money to watch them, we have the right to know too
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Feb 18, 2017 06:46pm
They should have been arrested and put in jail for hurting 'Nationalism of the Nation'. Prosecution process could run later. This would give strong message to those thinking of making quick bucks. National assembly should pass a bill on this and all such issues with dire consequences, but our leaders will never let this happen due to their own shady characters.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:08pm
Just a quick face saving act and brush up.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:13pm
Looks these two have doomed their cricketing career. If proven guilty they will have nowhere to hide their faces. Shame to their respective family will be an added feature.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:25pm
they will be given one to two weeks to respond and Panama case taking ages
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Feb 18, 2017 07:32pm
I think this is wrong where they have been penalised for an allegation nothing proven until they pride complete statement and get verdict so until proven guilty they should have allowed to carry on playing in this PSL . Secondly why we become so sensitive about cricketers characters ? when from top to bottom everyone is corrupt yes SIR!!! everyone from the top , take an example of our Prime Minister and the first family show should have been the example but obviously this is the example they have set and the public is following it ? if these goons and corrupt leaders can get votes from the public then why not cheer for these corrupt players on the field ?
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Feb 18, 2017 07:41pm
Investigation into this affair must be transparent and if found guilty, punishment must be given. There is enough bad press against Pakistan and we don't need more.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:42pm
@Arshad have you heard of "innocent until proven guilty". They should have their say in court first.
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Feb 18, 2017 07:46pm
@Galactic mist Get a life! Blame NS for any & everything! Obsessions can get very boring!
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Feb 18, 2017 08:06pm
Make an example out of these players!!
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Feb 18, 2017 08:22pm
Jail time.It is simple.
That is how the world deals with this issue.
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Feb 18, 2017 08:31pm
Why are they not arrested and tried for the criminal act? Just like in UK they must be punished by the law of the land too, and just by the PCB.
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Feb 18, 2017 08:42pm
No media trials but if proven guitly it amounts to treason its as simple as that,
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Feb 18, 2017 08:49pm
Was in news that both will be given ban of 3 to 4 years. If permanently banned than no doubt they will go to court and challenge this decision based on the report of Jusice Qayum as why those players had not been banned who are mentioned in the report and still serving on higher posts in PCB. This is why PCB to be lenient as to save their jobs.
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Feb 18, 2017 09:19pm
Before any negative comments let give them there version. If guilty send them to jail for life and Other also who involved .
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Feb 18, 2017 09:22pm
Misbah, "Finish International career" In other words,He will play in Pakistan till Kingdom come!
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Feb 18, 2017 09:39pm
Why these players are so greedy.thry destroyed rheir whole career for 5000 dollers
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Feb 18, 2017 09:46pm
@Galactic mist : Really shocked to see the mindset of Pakistan people.Dont compare ppl, if done wrong they shud be barred and fined.Since from top to bottom all are corrupt dosnt meant you got licence to do corruption.
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Feb 18, 2017 10:10pm
Enough is enough.This is a do or die situation for Pakistan cricket team.
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Feb 18, 2017 10:25pm
If players r proved for wrongdoing than they should ban for good of their career as an exemplary punishment for other especially youngerplayers since these players have receive a proper training under the PCB code of conduct and signing of central contracts. Really v shameful act of letting down not their career but also Pakistan name.
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Feb 18, 2017 10:29pm
add mohd. azaruddin, ajay jadeja, ajay sharma, and prabhakar to this list of players....shame them in public.....blemish them so the future generation of cricketers can learn the lesson..
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Feb 18, 2017 10:58pm
PCB stop persecuting them in the media. And you do then please have the decency to disclose everything lets have a public trial
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Feb 18, 2017 11:01pm
don't spare them if found guilty
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Feb 19, 2017 12:07am
Any player found involved in spot-fixing should be banned for life from all sports.
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Feb 19, 2017 02:47am
Just the charge sheet? Should have a worksheet for share breakdown of money.
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Feb 19, 2017 03:08am
@Galactic mist Right on!
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Feb 19, 2017 07:17am
Stop the media trial and social network trial these are good players if they have made a mistake reprimand them and allow to work their way through hard work and dedication. We are humans not angels.
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Feb 19, 2017 07:40am
The best way to curtail corruption is to make examples out of prom inent figures..
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Feb 19, 2017 08:12am
Is this a joke they are thrown out of the team ......Yet corrupt politicians cling on to their seats when there charges are more serious .... Laughing stock in the eyes of the world
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Feb 19, 2017 08:14am
First of PCB statted PSL a dimestic tournament. It does not fall under domestic or international tournament. For me it is private tournament arranged by PCB. So charge sheet given does not apply to both players as for me it is not domestic tournament. Secondly i am 100% sure, they do not have any solid proof they just acted on report from ICC and hold these players in doubt. Let me be clear court works with proofs and PCB does not have valid proofs in anyway otherwise they could have hanged these people in public. So far they mentally tourtured for 4 days without their lawyers to make a deal but could succeed. Now they have issued charge sheet but for me it is query not charge sheet.Charge sheet is issued when crime has prooved but nothig has prooved. Why players are not allowed to speak to media? Why PCB is hiding them.
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Feb 19, 2017 08:35am
Just the charge sheet? Should have a worksheet for share breakdown of money.
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Feb 19, 2017 09:13am
Interesting , there is a charge sheet now ..but no charges published yet ?
Some things don't add up here .
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Feb 19, 2017 10:10am
Its funny how people are jumping to conclusions when we don't even know what the charges are and what these players are actually accused of? In famous Spot fixing case, the details were instantly published and we all came to know what those guys did. Here, we do not have even slightest of ideas that what actually happened. Plus, if PCB says these players confessed to wrong doings then why charge sheet has been given to them? It should have been submitted in court with their confessions so that punishments can be issued? But instead we are waiting for the players to reply to the charge sheets? Something does not quite add up
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Feb 19, 2017 10:31am
Players who sell their national pride should be banned for life.....It is not a matter of punishment only....It is a matter of setting up example against corruption....If life ban is not given then corruption will continue happen....no way to stop it.
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Feb 19, 2017 11:47am
May be these two players know something about top line of fixing and they could have been trapped to cover some big names. These are new players and might be not having highs rates as the other cricket giants having. Their cricket career is at their start almost. It happens that, the one who owns power always throw his mess on the one who is weaker. In the case of alleged players trial, ultimately the real mafia will get enough time to weaken the case against themselves. Concluding that, these players should have been provided fair chance to prove their innocence and this case should be solve forthwith.
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Feb 19, 2017 12:25pm
Please put aside politics from sports.
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