Pakistan Cricket Board Wants Salman Butt to be More Honest and Forthright

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is at loggerheads with Salman Butt as the banned Test captain is not ready to accept blame for encouraging his former teammates Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif to take part in spot-fixing in 2010.(Butt Confesses to Spot-Fixing: PCB)

A senior official in the PCB told PTI that the board had put on hold Butt's case.(ICC Set to Pave Way for Amir's Return)

"He met with PCB officials and had requested that we take up his case for some relaxation from the International Cricket Council before his ban ends as was done in Mohammad Aamer's case," the official said.(Butt Hopes for Comeback)

"But so far he has not responded to a letter we sent him on February 9 in which we had told him clearly he needed to be more honest and forthright if he harbours any hope of playing cricket again," the official added.(Butt Loses Appeal)

He said the problem with Butt was that while he has admitted to have violated the ICC anti-corruption code, he was not willing to accept his role in getting Asif and Aamer to indulge in spot-fixing during the fourth Test against England at Lords in August 2010.(Amir Makes Domestic Comeback)

Butt, Amir and Asif were banned for minimum five-year terms by the ICC's anti-corruption tribunal in February 2011 for spot-fixing and they later also served varying jail terms in the United Kingdom.

Amir got some relaxation as he cooperated with the ICC and later confessed and apologised for his actions.

The PCB official made it clear that the board would not take up Butt's case unless he came clean.

"He has not responded to our letter sent in February so there is nothing much we can do."