Amid Uproar, PCB Takes U-Turn On Hiring Spot-Fixing Accused Salman Butt | Cricket News

A day after being appointed marketing consultant to Chief Selector Wahab Riaz by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), former worldwide Salman Butt on Saturday faraway from the publish, ESPNcricinfo reported. According to ESPNcricinfo, the chief selector convened a press convention on Saturday to announce that Butt’s title was withdrawn from the consultancy panel with fast impact. The southpaw, who represented Pakistan in each red-ball and white-ball codecs, was suspended after pleading responsible to a spot-fixing incident throughout a Test in opposition to England at Lords in 2010.

Butt’s appointment as marketing consultant to the choice panel was met with sturdy resistance from inside the PCB.

According to the report by ESPNcricinfo, an worker of the apex administrative physique of Pakistan Cricket was stated to be uncomfortable with the appointment of the contaminated 39-year-old former cricketer as a marketing consultant and threatened to resign.

In the face of mounting inside stress and criticism over the appointment of a former cricketer, Wahab convened an pressing press convention on Saturday and confirmed Butt’s withdrawal from the choice panel.

Earlier, on Friday, the PCB named former gamers Kamran Akmal, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, and Butt as consultants to the chief selector.

Their appointment was made with fast impact with their first task being the upcoming five-match T20I collection in opposition to New Zealand.

The T20I collection is scheduled to start on January 12 after the abroad tour of Australia, which is able to get underway on December 14.

The consultants have been employed to assist the crew obtain the identical success as they did within the final T20 World Cup.

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