LONDON: It has been reported that the difference of opinion within Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) regarding Salman Butt which would led former skipper failing to complete rehabilitation programme, ESPNcricinfo said.
It is believed that the divergence of opinion is on the point of whether or not Butt has done enough by way of sharing information on corrupt practices and helping anti-corruption agencies. PCB officials were not willing to comment on this issue.
The site reported that PCB has been denying him access to the educational programme for more than two years.
Last week, the National Cricket Academy invited him complete his rehabilitation program; the move had been directly approved by PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan but the plan was called off immediately after objections were raised by some senior PCB officials asking Butt to ‘come clean’.
Butt, who is 30 at the moment, was originally handed a 10-year ban from any involvement in cricketing activities for spot-fixing during the Lord’s Test in August 2010, with five years suspended on the condition that he would commit no further breach of the anti-corruption code and participate in a PCB-controlled anti-corruption education programme.
The dead line is not far away as Butt has to attend the two lectures which would reduce the ban to five year instead of 10-years.
If September 1 deadline ended then Butt have to serve his full ten-year ban on account of his role in spot-fixing.
