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Salman Butt under ICC scanner for playing in an unsanctioned T20 league

January 31, 2018, 11:22 PM

Nation Next Newsroom | World

Pakistan’s tainted former cricket captain, Salman Butt, is in the news again for playing in Ajman All Stars T20 League held recently, which is being investigated by the anti corruption unit of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

Butt, who along with Mohammad Asif was handed a five year ban from 2010 to 2016 by the ICC for spot-fixing matches, were among a few Pakistani players who took part in the private T20 league. The league caught the attention of ICC when video footage from the matches was aired and consisted of questionable dismissals and behaviour on the part of players.

Though the aired footage of the match didn’t include any Pakistani cricketers, Butt has revealed that he did play two matches in the league. Speaking to PTI, Butt even said that he’s happy that the league is being investigated as it had a lot of flaws and was unsanctioned, something which he got to know after he took part in it. He also said that since the spot-fixing scandal he tries to stay away from controversies as much as he can.

The Ajman All stars T20 league has apparently been termed as illegal by Emirates Cricket Council and by the Ajman Cricket Council.

Daily Updates

Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

5 months ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

6 months ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

6 months ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.